Nishino-seto Strait
| Nishino-seto Strait | ||
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| Connects waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| with water | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Separates land mass | Ongul Island | |
| of land mass | Ongulkalven | |
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| Geographical location | 69 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 39 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Nishino-seto Strait ist ( Japanese 西 の 瀬 戸 Nishi-no-seto , German 'West Street' ) is a narrow strait in the Flatvær archipelago off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Lützow-Holm-Bucht it separates the Ongul Island from the Ongulkalven Island .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Scientists from a Japanese Antarctic expedition carried out between 1957 and 1962 mapped it again and gave it its descriptive name based on the geographical position of the strait within the Flatvær archipelago. The US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1968.
Web links
- Nishino-Seto Strait in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nishino-seto Strait on geographic.org (English)