Gunnel Channel

Gunnel Channel
Connects waters	Hanusse Bay
with water	The gullet
Separates land mass	Hansen Island
of land mass	Arrowsmith Peninsula , Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Data
Geographical location	67 ° 6 ′  S , 67 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 67 ° 6 ′  S , 67 ° 33 ′  W
length	11 km
Smallest width	800 m

The Gunnel Channel (English for railing channel ) is a 800 m wide and 11 km long strait in the southern part of the Hanusse Bay . It separates Hansen Island from the west coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula .

The canal was discovered from the air and roughly mapped in 1936 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out an on-site survey in 1948 and named it. It is named after the false impression that the canal is so narrow that a ship cannot navigate in it without scratching the railing on both sides .

Web links

• Gunnel Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Gunnel 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