Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Lemaire Channel (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lemaire Channel (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Channel (9)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Channel about 7 mi long and averaging about 1 mi wide, extending in a NE-SW direction from Splitwind Island and False Cape Renard to Roullin Point and Cape Cloos, and separating Booth Island from the W coast of Graham Land. Discovered by a German expedition under Dallmann, 1873-74. Traversed in December 1898 by the BelgAE under Gerlache, and named by him for Charles Lemaire, Belgian explorer of the Congo.
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