Styles Strait
| Styles Strait | ||
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| Connects waters | Cosmonaut Lake | |
| with water | Cosmonaut Lake | |
| Separates land mass | Sakellari Peninsula | |
| of land mass | White Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 66 ° 51 ′ S , 48 ° 35 ′ E | |
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| length | 25 km | |
| Smallest width | 10 km | |
The Styles Strait is a 25 km and between 10 and 15 km wide Strait off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbylands . It separates White Island from the Sakellari Peninsula .
Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) from November 1956 were used for their mapping. An ANARE team led by Australian government official Donald Franklin Styles (1916–1995), deputy director of the Australian Antarctic Division and namesake of the strait, visited them in February 1960 and 1961.
Web links
- Styles Strait in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Styles Strait on geographic.org (English)