Tickle Channel

Tickle Channel (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Tickle Channel  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 14698
Name ID: 111591

Feature type: Channel

Origin

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:

Narrative

between Adelaide Island and Hansen Island, Loubet Coast, running N-S from Landauer Point, Hanusse Bay, to The Gullet, was seen from the air by BGLE, 25 February 1936; surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in September 1948 and so named, a tickle in Newfoundland and Labrador usage being a narrow passage between two islands (APC, 1955, p.21; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961). Paso Tickle (Chile. DNH chart 1503, 1963).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 07' 00.0" S
-67.11667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
67° 44' 00.0" W
-67.73333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
31-Mar-1955

Related information

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