Meek channel

Meek channel
Passage of the Meek Canal (1958)
Connects waters	Southern ocean
with water	Southern ocean
Separates land mass	Galíndez Island
of land mass	Grotto Island and Corner Island
Data
Geographical location	65 ° 15 ′ 29 ″  S , 64 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 65 ° 15 ′ 29 ″  S , 64 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  W

The Meek Channel is a narrow channel off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Argentine Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago , it separates the Galíndez Island in the southwest from Grotto Island and Corner Island in the northeast.

The canal was mapped and named by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . It is named after the ship engineer and geodesist William McCarter Meek, who was involved in the preparation of the expedition ship Penola .

Web links

• Meek Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Meek Channel on geographic.org (English)