Yalour Sound
| Yalour Sound | ||
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| Connects waters | Antarctic Sound | |
| with water | Fridtjof-Sund | |
| Separates land mass | Andersson Island | |
| of land mass | Tabarin Peninsula , Graham Land | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 63 ° 33 '39 " S , 56 ° 39' 30" W | |
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The Yalour Sound (in Argentina Estrecho Yalour ) is a 1.5 km wide, 6 km long and usually frozen sound off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It connects the Fridtjof Sound with the Antarctic Sound and separates the Tabarin Peninsula from the Andersson Island .
The strait is named after Jorge Yalour (1874–1928), an officer on the Argentine corvette Uruguay to rescue the participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) in November 1903.
Web links
- Yalour Sound in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Yalour Sound on geographic.org (English)