Wilkins Sound

Wilkins Sound
Connects waters	Bellingshausen lake
with water	Bellingshausen lake
Separates land mass	Alexander I Island
of land mass	Charcot Island , Latady Island
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Geographical location	70 ° 27 '32 " S , 73 ° 4' 51" W Coordinates: 70 ° 27 '32 " S , 73 ° 4' 51" W

The Wilkins Sound is mostly from the Wilkins Ice Shelf occupied Straits in Antarctic Bellingshausen Sea . It lies between the western coastline of Alexander I Island and the offshore Charcot and Latady Islands .

The northern part of the sound was first sighted and roughly mapped in 1910 by participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins , who gave the sound its name, flew over it in 1929. Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) determined its extent in 1940 and named it. The British geographer Derek Searle mapped it together with the Latady Island using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948).

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