The Sound (Antarctica)
| The sound | ||
|---|---|---|
| Connects waters | Dallmann Bay | |
| with water | Dallmann Bay | |
| Separates land mass | Eastern Melchior Islands | |
| of land mass | Western Melchior Islands | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 64 ° 18 ′ 58 ″ S , 62 ° 57 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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| length | 5 km | |
| Smallest width | 800 m | |
The Sound (English for "The Sound "; in Argentina canal Principal, "main channel" called) is a 5 km long and 800 m wide strait in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In a north-south course, it divides the group of Melchior Islands into the Eastern and Western Melchior Islands .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition , led by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , carried out the first rough mapping. The name probably goes back to scientists of the British Discovery Investigations , who measured the strait in 1927. Argentine expeditions carried out further surveys in 1942, 1943 and 1948.
Web links
- The Sound in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Sound on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Principal, canal in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed July 29, 2017