Yalour Sound () is a passage 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and 4 miles (6 km) long, usually ice bound, linking
Fridtjof Sound and
Antarctic Sound
The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about long and from wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld for the e ...
between
Jonassen Island
Jonassen Island is one of several Antarctic islands around the peninsula known as Graham Land, which is closer to South America than any other part of that continent. It is volcanic in origin and part of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group.
I ...
and
Andersson Island
Andersson Island is a long and wide volcanic island of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group, located at the eastern end of the Tabarin Peninsula, Antarctica.
The island was originally named Uruguay Island by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1 ...
, off
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the sou ...
. Named by Argentina for Lieutenant
Jorge Yalour, who accompanied the ''Uruguay'' relief expedition of 1903.
Sounds of Graham Land
Landforms of Trinity Peninsula
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