Tickle Channel

Tickle Channel
Connects waters	Hanusse Bay
with water	The gullet
Separates land mass	Adelaide Island
of land mass	Hansen Island
Data
Geographical location	67 ° 6 '58 "  S , 67 ° 43' 59"  W Coordinates: 67 ° 6 '58 "  S , 67 ° 43' 59"  W
length	8 kilometers
Smallest width	1.5 km

The Tickle Channel is between 1.5 and 5 km wide and 8 km long strait off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . The channel runs between Adelaide Island in the west and Hansen Island to the east . It connects the Hanusse Bay in the north with the strait The Gullet, which adjoins to the south .

Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill sighted them on a flight in February 1936. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements and descriptive naming in 1948. "Tickle" is the name commonly used in Newfoundland and Labrador for a narrow waterway between two islands.

Web links

• Tickle Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Tickle Channel on geographic.org (English)

Marguerite Bay Laubeuf Fjord The gullet Gunnel Channel Tickle Channel Hanusse Bay Buchanan Passage Isacke passage Crystal sound Grandidier Canal Penola Strait Lemaire Channel Butler passage Bismarck Street Gerlache Street Orléans Street Bransfield Street Antarctic Sound Prince Gustav Canal

Straits along the coast of Graham Land