Chenal Buffon
| Chenal Buffon | ||
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| Connects waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| with water | Lake D'Urville | |
| Separates land mass | Pétrel Island ( Géologie Archipelago ) | |
| of land mass | Buffon Islands and Lamarck Island ( Géologie Archipelago ) | |
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| Geographical location | 66 ° 39 '47 " S , 140 ° 1' 15" E | |
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The Chenal Buffon ( French ) is a strait in the Géologie archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It separates the Pétrel Island in the west from the Buffon Islands and Lamarck Island in the east.
French scientists named them in 1977, probably based on the naming of the neighboring archipelago. It is named after the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–1788).
Web links
- Buffon, Chenal in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and French)