Dove Channel
| Dove Channel | ||
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| Connects waters | Weddell Sea | |
| with water | Orwell Bight | |
| Separates land mass | northern Oliphant Islands | |
| of land mass | southern Oliphant Islands | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 60 ° 44 ′ 17 " S , 45 ° 35 ′ 31" W | |
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The Dove Channel is a narrow strait in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It separates 600 m south of the Gourlay Peninsula from Signy Island, the two larger of the Oliphant Islands in the north from the rest of this group of islands and runs in an east-west direction.
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped the waterway in 1933 and named it after the Dove , the ship of the British seal hunter George Powell , who discovered the southern Orkney Islands in 1821 with his American counterpart Nathaniel Palmer . A whaling ship of the same name, which operated in these waters between 1912 and 1913, is also a possible namesake.
Web links
- Dove Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dove Channel on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 451 (English).