English Strait

Location of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands.

English Strait, with Robert Island on the left and Greenwich Island on the right.

English Strait is the 10.5-mile (17-km) long and 1.2-mile (2-km) wide strait lying between Greenwich Island and Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Trending southeast-northwest, and entered between Santa Cruz Point and Edwards Point in the south, and Fort William Point and Okol Rocks, Aitcho Islands in the north. The name dates back to 1822 and is established in international usage.

Location

English Strait is located at 62°26′00″S 59°38′00″W / 62.43333°S 59.63333°W / -62.43333; -59.63333. British mapping in 1821, 1822 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2009.

Map

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4)

References

English Strait. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

South Shetland Islands

Major	Clarence Deception Elephant Greenwich King George Livingston Low Nelson Robert Smith Snow

Minor	Aitcho Barrientos Bilyana Cecilia Emeline Jorge Kilifarevo Pasarel Riksa Araguez Astor Barlow Basso Beslen Boatin Borceguí Bridgeman Chiprovtsi Cornwall Cornwallis Craggy Dee Desolation Dinea Dufayel Dunbar Aspis Balsha Melyane Pogledets Zavala Eadie Express Gibbs Glumche Gnomon González Half Moon Heywood Kabile Låvebrua Meade Cave Pisanitsa Zverino Miladinovi Montufar Ongley Onogur Churicheni Grod Kovach Leeve Oescus Osenovlag Redina Svetulka Vilare Penguin Pordim Prisad Prosechen Pyramid Rogozen Romeo Rowett Rugged San Telmo Seal Sierra Square End Stoker Sugarloaf Table Tatul Tirizis Toledo Treklyano Valchedram Window Withem Wood Zebil Zed Esperanto Koshava Lesidren Phanagoria

Rocks, stacks, reefs spits and banks	Aim Rocks Alepu Avren Belchin Bizone Bonert Borceguí Bowler Buchino Caraquet Chabrier Channel Chaos Chapman Cheshire Cone Cove Cutler Dlagnya Dovizio Eddystone Eliza Emm Enchantress Folger Frederick Galiche Goritsa Grace Graovo Growler Hauken Henfield Hetty Hole Holmes Ibar Indian Keep Knight Koynare Letelier Liberty Lientur Limit Livonia Long Low Lynx Lyutibrod Maglizh Makresh Martello Tower Meldia Mellona Milev Mónica Morris Nancy Napier Nikudin Okol Opaka Ørnen Orsoya Parry Patch Passage Patresh Perivol Pig Potmess Asses Ears Priboy Rabisha Raquelia Reyes Rongel Rosales Rusokastro Salient Sally Sewing-Machine Needles Shearer Simpson Sinbad Skrino Stackpole Stewart Suhache Syrezol Telefon Telish Tenorio The Pointers Tooth Tu Turmoil Tvarditsa Twin Pinnacles Two Summit Upton Vardim Vergilov Vidal Vietor Vodoley Voluyak Weeks

Straits	Boyd English Fildes Glogovo Hell Gates Iglika Izgrev Klimash McFarlane Morton Mugla Neck or Nothing Nelson Orión Osmar Smolensk Villalón

Undersea and subglacial features	Bransfield Trough Macheret Trench Orca Seamount Quiroga Ridge South Shetland Trough Vergilov Ridge Wordie Seamount

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