Lawrence Channel
| Lawrence Channel | ||
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| Connects waters | Hinks Channel | |
| with water | Laubeuf Fjord | |
| Separates land mass | Arrowsmith Peninsula | |
| of land mass | Wyatt Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 67 ° 21 '23 " S , 67 ° 36' 16" W | |
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The Lawrence Channel is a strait off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . The channel runs in a north-south direction between the Arrowsmith Peninsula and the upstream Wyatt Island and connects the open part of the Laubeuf Fjord with the Hinks Channel .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1984 after Stuart James Lawrence (* 1944), captain of the ship Bransfield in service for the British Antarctic Survey from 1974.
Web links
- Lawrence Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lawrence Channel on geographic.org (English)