Lientur Canal
| Lientur Canal | ||
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| Connects waters | Paradise Harbor | |
| with water | Gerlache Street | |
| Separates land mass | Lemaire Island | |
| of land mass | Bryde Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 64 ° 50 ′ 10 ″ S , 62 ° 58 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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The Lientur Canal ( Spanish Canal Lientur , Bryde Channel in the United Kingdom ) is a strait off the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Lemaire and Bryde Islands and connects Paradise Harbor with Gerlache Strait .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery carried out the first rough mapping of this sea route. Participants of the 4th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1949–1950) named it after the Lientur , one of the three ships on this expedition.
Web links
- Lientur Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lientur Channel on geographic.org (English)