Lientur Channel () is a channel between
Lemaire Island and
Bryde Island
Bryde Island is a hypsographic island in the Queen Maud Gulf
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Monarchy
* Queen regnant, a female monarch of a Kingdom
** List of queens regnant
* Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king
* Queen dowager, the w ...
connecting
Paradise Harbor with
Gerlache Strait, off the west coast of
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...
, Antarctica. It was first roughly charted by the
Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99. The channel was named by the fourth
Chilean Antarctic Expedition
The First Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1947–1948) was an expedition to Antarctica mounted by the Chilean government and military to enforce its territorial claims against British challenges, namely Operation Tabarin.
Among other accomplishmen ...
(1949–50) after the ''Lientur'', one of the ships used during this expedition.
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References
Channels of the Southern Ocean
Straits of Graham Land
Danco Coast
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