Jones Canal
| Jones Canal | ||
|---|---|---|
| Connects waters | Bourgeois Fjord | |
| with water | Bigourdan Fjord | |
| Separates land mass | Blaiklock Island | |
| of land mass | Arrowsmith Peninsula | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 67 ° 30 ′ S , 67 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| length | 13 km | |
| Smallest width | 1.5 km | |
The Jones Channel is a 13 km long and 1.5 to 3 km wide strait off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs between Blaiklock Island and the southern section of the Arrowsmith Peninsula and connects Bigourdan Fjord in the southwest with the northern end of Bourgeois Fjord . When it was discovered, it was filled with the Jones Ice Shelf , which dissolved in 2003.
It is named after the British geodesist Harold David Jones (1919-2004), who was involved in surveying the canal on behalf of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey .
Web links
- Jones Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jones Channel on geographic.org (English)