Lemaire Channel
| Lemaire Channel | ||
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| Connects waters | Butler passage | |
| with water | Penola Strait | |
| Separates land mass | Kiev Peninsula , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| of land mass | Booth Island | |
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| Geographical location | 65 ° 4 ′ 30 ″ S , 63 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | 6 km | |
| Smallest width | 720 m | |
Straits along the coast of Graham Land
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The Lemaire Channel is a strait in Antarctica between the Antarctic Peninsula and the eight kilometer long Booth Island in front of it .
The strait was discovered in 1873 by the German captain Eduard Dallmann . The Lemaire Canal was named in 1898 during the Belgica expedition by Adrien de Gerlache after Charles François Alexandre Lemaire (1863-1925), a Belgian African explorer and district commissioner in the Belgian Congo .
The length of the canal is about six kilometers, at the narrowest point it is 720 meters wide. The surrounding mountains rise to a height of 1,000 meters. At the northern entrance of the canal is the double peak of Cape Renard . The mountain has officially been called " Una Peaks " since 2008 , after having been given the unofficial name "Una's Tits" in memory of Una Spivey, a supervisor of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) staff, since around 1955, the later British Antarctic Survey , carried out in the Falkland Islands in the 1940s .
The passage through the canal to or from Petermann Island is one of the highlights of an Antarctic trip on a cruise ship . The Lemaire Canal is also known as the “Kodak Gap” because of the variety of photo opportunities. The protected waters of the canal form a great contrast to the stormy Southern Ocean . The glaciers and cliffs are reflected in the still water at the southern end of the canal. When icebergs block the journey south, the cruise ships are forced to turn around and circle Booth Island to reach Petermann Island.
photos
Water reflection in the Lemaire Channel
Una's Tits , double peaks at Cape Renard , also Cape Renard Towers
Russian cruise ship "Akademik Sergei Wawilow " in the Lemaire Channel
literature
- Fred G. Alberts (Ed.): Geographic Names of the Antarctic . National Science Foundation, Washington, DC 1995.
- Antarctica. Great stories of a frozen continent . Reader's Digest, Sydney 1985, ISBN 0-949819-64-6 .
- William N. Bonner (Ed.): Antarctica . Pergamon Press, Oxford 1985, ISBN 0-08-028881-2 .
- Jeff Rubin: Antarctica. A Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit . Lonely Planet Publications, Oakland, CA 1996, ISBN 0-86442-415-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Una Peaks Australian Antarctic Data Center
- ↑ Una Peaks: a long overdue Antarctic geographical naming Cambridge University Press, Polar Record 45, Cambridge 2009, pp. 177-179
- ↑ alpinist.com: Antarctic Climb Completes Pou Brothers' Seven Wall Quest
