Reynolds Strait

Reynolds Strait
	Topographic map (1: 250,000) showing the Reynolds Strait
Connects waters	Southern ocean
with water	Southern ocean
Separates land mass	Forrester Island
of land mass	Grant Island and Shepard Island
	Data
Geographical location	74 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 132 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 74 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 132 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W

The Reynolds Strait is a strait lying on the edge of the Getz Ice Shelf off the Hobbs coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It separates Forrester Island in the north from Grant Island and Shepard Island in the south.

The discovery of this sea route, which was subjected to a depth sounding , coincided with that of Forrester Island on February 4, 1962 from aboard the icebreaker USS Glacier under Captain Edwin Anderson McDonald (1907-1988). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the strait in 1974 after Lieutenant Commander Ralph R. Reynolds (1938–1973), officer in charge of the nuclear reactor unit at McMurdo Station in 1970.

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