Kidson Channel
| Kidson Channel | ||
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| Connects waters | Shackleton Ice Shelf | |
| with water | Shackleton Ice Shelf | |
| Separates land mass | David Island | |
| of land mass | Davis Peninsula , Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 66 ° 30 '13 " S , 98 ° 50' 37" E | |
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| Smallest width | 6 km | |
The Kidson Channel ( English ) is an icy, 6 to 11 km wide strait on the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie Land . It separates the Davis Peninsula from David Island .
The Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson , head of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914), named the channel after the New Zealand meteorologist Edward Kidson (1882-1939), who wrote the meteorological reports of this research trip and before that of the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under the Led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Kidson Channel in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)