Cornice Channel
Antarctica /
Sector claimed by Argentina/Chile/UK /
Academician Vernadskiy - permanent station of the Ukraine /
World
/ Antarctica
/ Sector claimed by Argentina/Chile/UK
/ Academician Vernadskiy - permanent station of the Ukraine
World
water, strait / channel / passage / narrows, invisible
Narrow channel separating Galindez Island from the E part of Skua Island in the Argentine Islands, Wilhelm Archipelago. First surveyed in 1935-36 by the BGLE under Rymill. So named in 1954 by the UK-APC because a prominent cornice overhangs the ice cliff on the Galindez Island side of the channel.
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Coordinates: 65°15'7"S 64°14'58"W
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- Admiralty Sound 349 km
- McFarlane Strait 371 km
- Strait of Le Maire 1181 km
- Beagle Channel 1216 km
- Otway Sound 1457 km
- The Strait of Magellan 1529 km
- Falkland Sound 1552 km
- Straits of Magellan 1574 km
- Nelson Strait 1652 km
- Penola Strait 8.6 km
- Collins Bay 13 km
- Trooz Glacier 21 km
- Kiev Peninsula 21 km
- Wauwermans Islands 39 km
- Talbot Glacier 46 km
- Joubin Islands 52 km
- Flandres Bay 55 km
- Wiencke Island 64 km
- Neumayer Channel 65 km