Gilbert Strait
| Gilbert Strait | ||
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| Connects waters | Bransfield Street | |
| with water | Orléans Street | |
| Separates land mass | Trinity Island | |
| of land mass | Tower Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 63 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Gilbert Strait is a strait in the Palmer Archipelago off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs between Trinity Island and Tower Island .
The British naval officer Henry Foster of the Royal Navy named them on his Antarctic voyage with the HMS Chanticleer (1827-1831). It is named after the British engineer Davies Gilbert (1767–1839), President of the Royal Society from 1827 to 1830. Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld mapped the strait.
Web links
- Gilbert Strait in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gilbert Strait on geographic.org (English)