Rallier Canal
| Rallier Canal | ||
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| Connects waters | Southern ocean | |
| with water | Southern ocean | |
| Separates land mass | Rallier Island | |
| of land mass | Booth Island | |
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| Geographical location | 65 ° 15 ′ 29 ″ S , 64 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Rallier Channel ( French Chenal Rallier du Baty ) is a narrow channel west of the Kiev Peninsula on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Wilhelm Archipelago , it separates the small Rallier Island from the western end of the considerably larger Booth Island in a northeast-southwest orientation .
They were discovered by participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named it based on the name of the island of the same name. It is named after the French polar explorer Raymond Rallier du Baty (1881–1978), a participant in Charcot's expedition.
Web links
- Rallier Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rallier Channel on geographic.org (English)