Langsundet
| Langsundet | ||
|---|---|---|
| Connects waters | Cooperation lake | |
| with water | Cooperation lake | |
| Separates land mass | Archipelago around Brøka and Havstein | |
| of land mass | Law Promontory | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 67 ° 9 ′ S , 58 ° 40 ′ E | |
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| length | 18 km | |
| Smallest width | 4 km | |
The Langsundet (Norwegian for Long Sound ) is a 18 km long and 4 km wide strait off the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands . It runs between the archipelago that includes the islands of Brøka and Havstein , and Law Promontory , which is connected to the mainland .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively, mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Long Sound in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lang Sound on geographic.org (English)