Powell Canal
| Powell Canal | ||
|---|---|---|
| Connects waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| with water | Marguerite Bay | |
| Separates land mass | Millerand Island | |
| of land mass | Debenham Islands | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 68 ° 7 '24 " S , 67 ° 7' 55" W | |
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The Powell Channel is a narrow strait off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In Marguerite Bay it is a navigable passage between Millerand Island in the west and the Debenham Islands to the east .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after Lieutenant John Martin Powell (* 1944) of the Royal Navy , who surveyed the canal in 1972.
The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica also contains a strait with the name Paso Martin at the coordinates 68 ° 8 ′ S , 67 ° 6 ′ W with an almost identical description .
Web links
- Powell Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Powell Channel on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin, Paso in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish). Retrieved December 27, 2019.