Lang Sound
Lang Sound () is a sound wide at its narrowest point and long, lying between the group of islands that includes Broka Island and Havstein Island and Law Promontory Law Promontory in Antarctica was named after Phillip Law, who flew over and photographed this feature in February 1954. The promontory is about long, situated just west and north-west of Stefansson Bay. This feature appears to have been first map .... It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition in January–February 1937 and named Langsundet (the long sound). References External links * Sounds of Antarctica Bodies of water of Kemp Land {{KempLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sound (geography)
In geography, a sound is a smaller body of water typically connected to a larger sea or ocean. There is little consistency in the use of "sound" in English-language place names. It can refer to an inlet, deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord, or a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land (similar to a strait), or it can refer to the lagoon located between a barrier island and the mainland. Overview A sound is often formed by the seas flooding a river valley. This produces a long inlet where the sloping valley hillsides descend to sea-level and continue beneath the water to form a sloping sea floor. The Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand are good examples of this type of formation. Sometimes a sound is produced by a glacier carving out a valley on a coast then receding, or the sea invading a glacier valley. The glacier produces a sound that often has steep, near vertical sides that extend deep underwater. The sea floor is often flat and deeper at the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Broka Island
Broka Island () is a rocky island, long and rising to , with a prominent cove indenting the north side, situated north of Law Promontory and west of Havstein Island. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37. They applied the name Broka (the trousers) because the outline of the island resembles that of a pair of trousers. See also * Lang Sound Lang Sound () is a sound wide at its narrowest point and long, lying between the group of islands that includes Broka Island and Havstein Island and Law Promontory. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the L ..., a sound lying between the group of islands that includes Broka Island * List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands References External links * Islands of Kemp Land {{KempLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Havstein Island
Havstein Island is a rocky island, long and wide, situated north of Law Promontory and east of Broka Island Broka Island () is a rocky island, long and rising to , with a prominent cove indenting the north side, situated north of Law Promontory and west of Havstein Island. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the ..., in Antarctica. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and named Havstein (sea stone), probably because of its rocky nature and its seaward position. See also * List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands References Islands of Kemp Land {{KempLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Law Promontory
Law Promontory in Antarctica was named after Phillip Law, who flew over and photographed this feature in February 1954. The promontory is about long, situated just west and north-west of Stefansson Bay. This feature appears to have been first mapped with an accuracy by William Scoresby in February 1936. It was photographed from the air by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37) and subsequently plotted on the Hansen Atlas Sheet 5 as Breidhovde. It was first visited by an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, ANARE party led by Peter W. Crohn in May 1956. On its southern side is Cirque Fjord. See also *Blackrock Head *Tryne Point Promontories of Antarctica Landforms of Kemp Land {{KempLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lars Christensen Expedition
Lars is a common male name in Scandinavian countries. Origin ''Lars'' means "from the city of Laurentum". Lars is derived from the Latin name Laurentius, which means "from Laurentum" or "crowned with laurel". A homonymous Etruscan name was borne by several Etruscan kings, and later used as a last name by the Roman Lartia family. The etymology of the Etruscan name is unknown. People * Lars (bishop), 13th-century Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden *Lars Kristian Abrahamsen (1855–1921), Norwegian politician *Lars Ahlfors (1907–1996), Finnish Fields Medal recipient *Lars Amble (1939–2015), Swedish actor and director *Lars Herminius Aquilinus, ancient Roman consul *Lars Bak (born 1980), Danish road bicycle racer *Lars Bak (computer programmer) (born 1965), Danish computer programmer *Lars Bender (born 1989), German footballer *Lars Christensen (1884–1965), Norwegian shipowner, whaling magnate and philanthropist *Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846–1926), Swedish inventor * Lars Eriksson, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sounds Of Antarctica
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the brain. Only acoustic waves that have frequencies lying between about 20 Hz and 20 kHz, the audio frequency range, elicit an auditory percept in humans. In air at atmospheric pressure, these represent sound waves with wavelengths of to . Sound waves above 20 kHz are known as ultrasound and are not audible to humans. Sound waves below 20 Hz are known as infrasound. Different animal species have varying hearing ranges. Acoustics Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gasses, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound, and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an ''acoustician'', while someone working in the field of acoustic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |