Cole Channel
| Cole Channel | ||
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| Connects waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| with water | Laubeuf Fjord | |
| Separates land mass | Wright Peninsula , Adelaide Island | |
| of land mass | Wyatt Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 67 ° 22 '52 " S , 67 ° 50' 54" W | |
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The Cole Channel is a strait off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs in a north-south direction between the Wright Peninsula of Adelaide Island and Wyatt Island in the Laubeuf Fjord .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the canal in 1984 after Maurice John Cole (* 1935), captain of the whaler Bransfield in the service of the British Antarctic Survey in 1975.
Web links
- Cole Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cole Channel on geographic.org (English)