Launch Channel
| Launch Channel | ||
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| Connects waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| with water | Vincennes Bay | |
| Separates land mass | Bailey Peninsula | |
| of land mass | Shirley Island in the Windmill Islands archipelago | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 66 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Launch Channel (English for barge canal is) a narrow strait at the Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It runs between the Bailey Peninsula and Shirley Island in the Windmill Islands archipelago .
Aerial photographs of the US operation Highjump (1946–1947) and Operation Windmill (1947–1948) were used to map them. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names played in 1963 when naming to the present in the Strait shallows at which a passage only of vessels with low draft permit.
Web links
- Launch Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Launch Channel on geographic.org (English)