Lewthwaite Strait (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lewthwaite Strait (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Strait
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
running N-S between Coronation Island and Powell Island, was charted and navigated by Powell, 10-11 December 1821, and named Lewthwaite's Strait after Mr Lewthwaite, of Princes Street, Rotherhithe, London, with whom Powell left his Antarctic journals and charts before sailing on his last expedition, on which he met his death in 1834 (Powell, chart, 1822a; 1822b, p.10). Détroit Lewthwaites (Powell, 1824a, map facing p.5). The strait was independently charted by Weddell, 19 January 1823, and named Spencer Straits or Spencers Straits after Sir Robert Spencer (Spencer Bluff, q.v.) (Weddell, 1825a, p.24, map facing p.25). Spencers Strasse (Weddell, 1827, second end map). Détroit de Leethwaite [sic] (d'Urville, 1838, map following p.1170). Lewthwaite Strait (BA chart 1238, 7.ix.1839; 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.13). Détroit de Lewthwaite (d'Urville, 1842, p.69). Lewthwaite Strasse (Friederichsen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p.304). Lethwaite [sic] Strait (Bruce, 1904, p.62). Leathwaite [sic] Strait (Brown and others, 1906, p.68). Estrecho de Leathwaite [sic] (Jalour, [1907b], p.31). Estrecho Lewthwaite (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map; Pierrou, 1970, p.482). Lewthwaite Stait [sic] (Sørlle, chart, 1912). Estrecho de Lewthwaite (Argentina. MM chart 31, 1930). Lewthwaite Sundet (Sørlle, chart, [1930]). The strait was recharted by DI in 1933. Leithwaite [sic] Strait (France. SHM, 1937, p.388). Estrecho Leathwaite [sic] (Argentina. IGM map, 1952). Stretto Lewthwaite (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 10). Proliv Lutueyt (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). [
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