Kitano-seto Strait
| Kitano-seto Strait | ||
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| Connects waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| with water | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Separates land mass | East Ongul Island | |
| of land mass | Nesøya | |
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| Geographical location | 69 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 39 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kitano-seto Strait ist ( Japanese 北 の 瀬 戸 Kita-no-seto , German 'north road' ) is a narrow strait in the Flatvær archipelago off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It separates the island of Nesøya from the East Ongul island .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it based on aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 , but left it unnamed. Scientists from a Japanese Antarctic expedition carried out from 1957 to 1962 mapped it in 1957 and gave it its descriptive name based on the geographical position of the strait within the Flatvær archipelago. The US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1970.
Web links
- Kitano-seto Strait in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kitano-seto Strait on geographic.org (English)