🚤 Peltier Channel

Antarctica · Antarctica · 64.87°S, 63.53°W

Peltier Channel is a channel 6 nautical miles (11 km) long, in a NE-SW direction, separating Doumer and Wiencke Island Islands to the south of Port Lockroy, in the Palmer Archipelago to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Charcot for Jean Peltier, noted French physicist.

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Quick facts

Country	Antarctica
Continent / region	Antarctica
Coordinates (approx.)	64.87°S, 63.53°W · view on map

Peltier 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.

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