Herbert Sound
| Herbert Sound | ||
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| Connects waters | Prince Gustav Canal | |
| with water | Erebus and Terror Golf | |
| Separates land mass | Vega Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| of land mass | James Ross Island (Ross Islands, West Antarctica) | |
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| Geographical location | 63 ° 55 '20 " S , 57 ° 38' 49" W | |
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The Herbert Sound ( Spanish Estrecho Azopardo ) is a strait at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula , which from Cape Lachman said and Keltie Head in the north-west to the passage between the peninsula The Naze and False Point Iceland extends to the southeast. The sound separates Vega Island from James Ross Island and connects the Prince Gustav Canal with the Erebus and Terror Gulf via the Bahía Esteverena .
The British navigator James Clark Ross discovered a large bay east of the sound on January 6, 1843 and named it after the British politician Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea (1810–1861). The Spanish name is named after the Maltese privateer Juan Bautista Azopardo (1772–1848), who fought on the side of Argentina in the Argentine-Brazilian War . Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903), led by polar explorer Otto Nordenskjöld, discovered and mapped the sound themselves . This included Ross' Bay in the name Sidney-Herbert-Sound . According to today's interpretation, the bay is limited to the area west of the passage between The Naze peninsula and False Island Point, while Ross' bay forms the western edge of the Erebus and Terror Gulf .
Web links
- Herbert Sound in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Herbert Sound on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 724 (English).