Ongul Sound
| Ongul Sound | ||
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| Connects waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| with water | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Separates land mass | Flatvær | |
| of land mass | Prince Harald Coast , Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Geographical location | 69 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 39 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Ongul Sound is ( Norwegian Ongulsundet ) is a 3 km wide strait off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Lützow-Holm-Bucht it separates the Flatvær archipelago from the mainland.
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936/37 and named it based on the name of Ongul Island .
Web links
- Ongul Sound in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ongul Sound on geographic.org (English)