Orléans Street

Orléans Street
Connects waters	Bransfield Street
with water	Gerlache Street
Separates land mass	Trinity Island and Tower Island
of land mass	Davis Coast , Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula
Data
Geographical location	63 ° 48 ′  S , 60 ° 10 ′  W Coordinates: 63 ° 48 ′  S , 60 ° 10 ′  W
length	30 km

The Orléans Strait ( French Canal d'Orléans ) is a 30 km long strait with a northeast-southwest orientation, which separates the islands of Trinity Island and Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago from the Davis coast of the Antarctic Peninsula .

It is likely that the American navigator Nathaniel Palmer was the first to sight this sea route on November 18, 1820. It was named and partially mapped during the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of Jules Dumont d'Urville . A detailed mapping was carried out during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under Otto Nordenskjöld . It is probably named after the house of Orléans , whose descendant Louis-Philippe I was King of France at the time of d'Urville's research trip.

Web links

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

Marguerite Bay Laubeuf Fjord The gullet Gunnel Channel Tickle Channel Hanusse Bay Buchanan Passage Isacke passage Crystal sound Grandidier Canal Penola Strait Lemaire Channel Butler passage Bismarck Street Gerlache Street Orléans Street Bransfield Street Antarctic Sound Prince Gustav Canal

Straits along the coast of Graham Land