George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/ fault depression, 300 miles (483 km) long and mainly covered by a permanent ice shelf. It is in the shape of the letter J without any upper bar. It lines the east and south shores of

Alexander Island Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarc ...

, separating it from the vestigial, quite small, Wordie Ice Shelf and

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(the south-west of the

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) and the north-facing "

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". A quite central point of it is . Various lakes adjoin; these receive large amounts of melt ice from the

George VI Ice Shelf The George VI Ice Shelf () is an extensive ice shelf that occupies George VI Sound which separates Alexander Island from Palmer Land in Antarctica. The ice shelf extends from Ronne Entrance, at the southwest end of the sound, to Niznik Island ...

. These include

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, Moutonee and

Ablation Lake Ablation Lake is a proglacial tidal lake in Ablation Valley, Alexander Island, Antarctica, with stratified saline and fresh water and depths exceeding . The feature is dammed in the upper portion by ice that pushes into the lake from the adjace ...

s. Several

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s flow eastward into the sound from the east interior of Alexander Island, the vast majority of these glaciers are south of

Planet Heights Planet Heights () is a series of summits running along an ice-free ridge, extending 24 nautical miles (44 km) in a north-south direction between the southernmost extremity of the LeMay Range and George VI Sound in the east part of Alexander I ...

, where all of these glaciers are named after

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s and

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s of the

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in the same vein as the Heights, named by the

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(UK-APC) in 1977. The sound is largely covered by the

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varies from about 15 miles (24 km) to more than 40 miles (64 km) wide. George VI Sound was discovered by

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who flew over it in 1935. The sound was explored by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) in 1936–37 and by the

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(USAS) in 1940. The sound was named by

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, leader of the BGLE, for

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of the

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and last

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. The

McLaughlin Cliffs The McLaughlin Cliffs () are abrupt rock cliffs that overlook George VI Sound between Armstrong Glacier and Conchie Glacier, in western Palmer Land, Antarctica. They were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Donald J. ...

overlook George VI Sound between

Armstrong Glacier Armstrong Glacier () is a glacier flowing from the south side of Mount Bagshawe westward into George VI Sound. It provides the only known safe route for mechanical vehicles from George VI Sound to the Palmer Land plateau. It was named by the Un ...

and

Conchie Glacier Conchie Glacier () is a glacier on the west coast of Palmer Land which flows southwest into George VI Sound between the Batterbee Mountains and the Steeple Peaks. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Flight-Lieutenant Berti ...

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:George Vi Sound Bodies of water of Palmer Land Depressions (geology) Bodies of water of Alexander Island

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