Woodfield Canal
| Woodfield Canal | ||
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| Connects waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| with water | Marguerite Bay | |
| Separates land mass | Dion Islands | |
| of land mass | Henkes Islands , Rocca Islands | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 67 ° 48 '58 " S , 68 ° 45' 0" W | |
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The Woodfield Channel is a strait in the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In Marguerite Bay , the channel separates at the southern end of the island of Adelaide , the group of Dion Islands of which Henkes- and Rocca Islands .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1963 after Thomas Woodfield (* 1933), first officer on board the RRS John Biscoe to survey this area in 1963.
Web links
- Woodfield Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Woodfield Channel on geographic.org (English)