Gossard Canal
| Gossard Canal | ||
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| Connects waters | Mawson Lake | |
| with water | Mawson Lake | |
| Separates land mass | Mariner Islands | |
| of land mass | Booth Peninsula | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 66 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 101 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Gossard Canal is a narrow strait with east-west orientation between the Mariner Islands and the Booth Peninsula in the center of the Highjump Archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them after Guy Carleton Gossard Jr. (1916–1989), a crew member on the flights of Operation Highjump for the creation of aerial photographs between 14 ° ( Queen Maud Land ) and 164 ° East longitude ( Victoria Land ) .
Web links
- Gossard Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gossard Channel on geographic.org (English)