Maurice Channel
| Maurice Channel | ||
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| Connects waters | South Atlantic | |
| with water | South Atlantic | |
| Separates land mass | Bellingshausen Island | |
| of land mass | Cook Island | |
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| Geographical location | 59 ° 25 '34 " S , 27 ° 6' 52" W | |
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| Smallest width | 2.5 km | |
The Maurice Channel is a 2.5 km wide strait in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands . In the group of the Southern Thule Islands , it separates Bellingshausen Island from Cook Island .
The existence of the canal can be derived indirectly from the description of the southern Thuleinseln by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen from 1820, in which they are depicted as a high cliff and three small islands. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped it in 1930. They named it after Henry Gascoyne Maurice (1874–1950), President of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea from 1920–1938.
Web links
- Maurice Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Maurice Channel on geographic.org (English)