Prince Gustav Canal

Prince Gustav Canal
Connects waters	Erebus and Terror Golf
with water	Weddell Sea
Separates land mass	James Ross Island and Vega Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica )
of land mass	Trinity Peninsula ( Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula )
Data
Geographical location	63 ° 57 ′  S , 58 ° 26 ′  W Coordinates: 63 ° 57 ′  S , 58 ° 26 ′  W
length	128 km
Smallest width	6.5 km

The Prince Gustav Canal is a strait in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula that separates James Ross Island and Vega Island from the Trinity Peninsula .

The passage was discovered in October 1903 during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . He named the canal after the then Swedish Crown Prince and later King Gustav V.

Web links

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

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Straits along the coast of Graham Land