🚤 Hinks Channel

Antarctica · Antarctica · 67.27°S, 67.62°W

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Hinks Channel is an arc-shaped channel in the northern part of Laubeuf Fjord, 2 nautical miles (4 km) wide and 11 nautical miles (20 km) long, which extends from The Gullet and separates Day Island on the west from Arrowsmith Peninsula and Wyatt Island on the east, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was first roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill, and was resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who named it for Arthur R. Hinks.

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Quick facts

CountryAntarctica
Continent / regionAntarctica
Coordinates (approx.)67.27°S, 67.62°W · view on map

Hinks Channel 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.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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