Stewart Strait () is a strait 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) wide between
Bird Island and the
Willis Islands, off the west end of
South Georgia
South Georgia is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. ...
. The strait was navigated and charted by Captain
James Cook
Captain (Royal Navy), Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer famous for his three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans, conducted between 176 ...
in 1775; later called
Willis Sound by sealers and whalers; recharted by DI in 1930 and named after Walter Stuart, Customs Officer in South Georgia at that time.
Straits of Antarctica
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