Quest Channel
| Quest Channel | ||
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| Connects waters | Southern ocean | |
| with water | Adelaide Anchorage | |
| Separates land mass | Henkes Islands | |
| of land mass | Hibbert Rock | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 67 ° 46 ′ 59 ″ S , 69 ° 0 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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The Quest Channel is a strait in the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It leads from the open Southern Ocean between Hibbert Rock in the northwest and the Henkes Islands in the southeast to Adelaide Anchorage on the south coast of Adelaide Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the channel in 1964 after the dinghy Quest of HMS Protector for measurement of the area in the year 1963rd
Web links
- Quest Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Quest Channel on geographic.org (English)