Peltier Channel () is a channel 6 nautical miles (11 km) long, in a NE-SW direction, separating
Doumer and
Wiencke Island
Wiencke Island is an island long and from wide, about in area, the southernmost of the major islands of the Palmer Archipelago, lying between Anvers Island to its north across the Neumayer Channel and the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsu ...
Islands to the south of
Port Lockroy
Port Lockroy is a bay forming a natural harbour on the north-western shore of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Antarctic base with the same name, situated on Goudier Island in this bay, includ ...
, in the
Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anvers ...
to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by the
French Antarctic Expedition
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.
1837–1840
In 1837, during an 1837–1840 expedition across the deep southern hemisphere, Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville sailed his ship ''Astrolabe'' alo ...
, 1903–05, and named by Charcot for
Jean Peltier, noted French physicist.
It was surveyed for the first time in March 2019 by
HMS Protector
Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been called HMS ''Protector'':
* , a 44-gun fifth rate listed in 1749 that served in India and was wrecked on 1 January 1776 by a cyclone near Pondicherry.
* ''Protector'', a fireship in service in 1758. ...
.
See also
*
Gerlache Strait Geology
*
Bauprés Rocks
References
Straits of the Palmer Archipelago
Doumer Island
Wiencke Island
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