Grandidier Canal

Grandidier Canal
The Polar Star in the Grandidier Canal, 2006
Connects waters	Penola Strait
with water	Crystal Sound and Pendleton Street
Separates land mass	Biscoe Islands
of land mass	Graham Coast , Graham Land
Data
Geographical location	65 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  S , 64 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 65 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  S , 64 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  W

The Grandidier Channel ( French Chenal Grandidier ) is a navigable strait between the west coast of the Antarctic Graham Land and the northern end of the offshore Biscoe Islands . It stretches south from Penola Strait to near Larrouy Island .

Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition mapped this sea route. Expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named him after the French naturalist Alfred Grandidier (1836-1921), from 1901 to 1905 President of the French Geographical Society .

Web links

• Grandidier Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Grandidier Channel on geographic.org (English)

Marguerite Bay Laubeuf Fjord The gullet Gunnel Channel Tickle Channel Hanusse Bay Buchanan Passage Isacke passage Crystal sound Grandidier Canal Penola Strait Lemaire Channel Butler passage Bismarck Street Gerlache Street Orléans Street Bransfield Street Antarctic Sound Prince Gustav Canal

Straits along the coast of Graham Land