Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Long Sound (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Long Sound (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Sound
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A sound about 3 km wide in its narrowest part and about 20 km long, E-W, which separates Broka and Havstein Islands from Law Promontory in Kemp Land. First visited by an ANARE sledging party led by Robert Dovers in 1954.
Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Langsundet (The Long Sound).
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