Chenal des Orques

Chenal des Orques
Connects waters	Lake D'Urville
with water	Lake D'Urville
Separates land mass	Astrolabe glacier tongue
of land mass	Rostand , Lamarck and Bernard Islands ( Géologie Archipelago )
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Geographical location	66 ° 40 '10 " S , 140 ° 1' 50" O Coordinates: 66 ° 40 '10 " S , 140 ° 1' 50" O

The Chenal des Orques ( French for channel of the killer whales ) is a strait in the Géologie archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It separates the tongue of the Astrolabe Glacier in the east from the Rostand , Lamarck and Bernard Islands in the west.

French scientists named it in 1977.

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