🚤 Fildes Strait

Antarctica · Antarctica · 62.23°S, 59.00°W

Fildes Strait is a strait which extends in a general east-west direction between King George Island and Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands. This strait has been known to sealers in the area since about 1822, but at that time it appeared on the charts as "Field's Strait". It was probably named for Robert Fildes, a British sealer of that period, whose vessel Robert was wrecked in Clothier Harbour in 1822.

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Country	Antarctica
Continent / region	Antarctica
Coordinates (approx.)	62.23°S, 59.00°W · view on map

Fildes Strait is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

More straits in Antarctica

Admiralty Sound · Aguirre Passage · Antarctic Sound · Argentino Channel · Aripleri Passage · Barlas Channel · Bismarck Strait · Black Island Channel · Boyd Strait · Bransfield Strait.

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