Peltier Channel
Antarctica /
Sector claimed by Argentina/Chile/UK /
Palmer - permanent station of the US /
World
/ Antarctica
/ Sector claimed by Argentina/Chile/UK
/ Palmer - permanent station of the US
World
water, strait / channel / passage / narrows, invisible
Channel 6 mi long, in a NE-SW direction, separating Doumer and Wiencke Islands to the S of Port Lockroy, in the Palmer Archipelago. Discovered by the FrAE, 1903-05, and named by Charcot for Jean Peltier, noted French physicist.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 64°51'38"S 63°31'0"W
- Croker Passage 129 km
- Admiralty Sound 305 km
- McFarlane Strait 316 km
- Strait of Le Maire 1140 km
- Beagle Channel 1188 km
- Otway Sound 1431 km
- Falkland Sound 1503 km
- Straits of Magellan 1552 km
- Nelson Strait 1630 km
- Puyuhuapi Channel 2345 km
- Wiencke Island 8.6 km
- Neumayer Channel 10 km
- Wauwermans Islands 19 km
- Flandres Bay 28 km
- Joubin Islands 43 km
- Kiev Peninsula 44 km
- Talbot Glacier 47 km
- Penola Strait 47 km
- Trooz Glacier 53 km
- Collins Bay 59 km