Matha Street
| Matha Street | ||
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| Connects waters | Southern ocean | |
| with water | Crystal sound | |
| Separates land mass | Adelaide Island | |
| of land mass | Biscoe Islands | |
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| Geographical location | 66 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 67 ° 25 ′ 59 ″ W | |
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The Matha Strait is a navigable strait off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates Adelaide Island from the southern end of the Biscoe Islands and runs from the open Southern Ocean to the southern end of Crystal Sound .
It got its name from the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , who mistook it for a bay during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) and consequently named it Baie Matha (French for Matha Bay ). The Australian polar explorer John Rymill cleared up this error during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937). The naming was adapted to the actual nature of the geographical object. Namesake is André Matha (1873-1915), deputy commander of the ship Français in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under Charcot's direction.
Web links
- Matha Strait in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Matha Strait on geographic.org (English)