Douglas Strait

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Douglas Strait
Satellite image of Douglas Strait between Morrell Island (left) and Cook Island (right)
Satellite image of Douglas Strait between Morrell Island (left) and Cook Island (right)
Connects waters South Atlantic
with water South Atlantic
Separates land mass Thule Island
of land mass Cook Island
Data
Geographical location 59 ° 25 ′ 58 ″  S , 27 ° 17 ′ 6 ″  W Coordinates: 59 ° 25 ′ 58 ″  S , 27 ° 17 ′ 6 ″  W
Douglas Strait (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Douglas Strait
Smallest width 3 km
Islands Twitcher skirt

The Douglas Strait , is a 3 km wide strait in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands . In the group of the South Thul Islands , it separates the Morrell Island from Cook Island . The cliff rock Twitcher Rock is located in the strait 1.1 km southeast of Morrell Island.

Participants in the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821) under the direction of the German-Baltic seafarer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen are considered to have discovered this sea ​​route in 1820 . Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped it in 1930 and named it after Percy Douglas (1876-1939), a member of the committee of this research series.

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