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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Fildes Strait (RUS) | 62° 14' 00.0" S | 59° 00' 00.0" W | Strait |
| Name ID: 117983 Place ID: 4589 | |||
| Fildes Strait (GBR) | 62° 13' 57.8" S | 58° 59' 56.4" W | Strait |
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Name ID: 108798
Place ID: 4589
running E-W between Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, and Nelson Island, was known to the nineteenth-century sealers; charted and named Filde's [sic] Strait or Sound by Capt. Robert Fildes, English sealing captain from Liverpool, who visited the South Shetland Islands in the brig Cora, 1820-21, and in the brig Robert, 1821-22, and who prepared the first comprehensive sailing directions for the islands (Fildes, 1821c). Field's [sic] Strait (Powell, chart, 1822a). Filde's [sic] Strasse (Fildes, 1827, p.465). Détroit Field's (Powell, 1824a, map facing p. 5). Filde's Strait (Powell, chart, 1828). Fildes Strait (Foster and Kendall, chart, 1829a; BA chart 3175, 31.x.1921; 3205, 25.iii.1937; APC, 1955, p.10; DOS 610 sheet W 62 58, 1968). Field Strait (SDUK, map, 1838; BA chart 1238, 1844; 1916, p.389). Détroit Filde [sic] (d'Urville, 1842, end map). Estrecho de Filde (Spain. DH chart 458, 1861). Field Strasse (Friederichsen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p.304). Stretto Field (Gerlache, 1902a, end map). Estrecho Fielid [sic] (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). Détroit de Field (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1). Fildes S. (HA chart, 1928). The strait was recharted by DI in 1934-35, when it was described as "only a boat-passage and a very dangerous one at that" and called The Narrows (Nelson, 1935). Estrecho Fildes (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.363; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.124). Estrecho Filder [sic] (Argentina. IGM map 3737, 1958). Stretto Fildes (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 9). Proliv Faylds (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.175). |
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| Fildes Strait (USA) | 62° 14' 00.0" S | 59° 00' 00.0" W | Strait |
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Name ID: 125087
Place ID: 4589
Strait which extends in a general E-W direction between King George Island and Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands. This strait has been known to sealers in the area since about 1822, but at that time it appeared on the charts as Field's Strait. Probably named for Robert Fildes, a British sealer of that period. |
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| Fildes, estrecho (ARG) | 62° 14' 00.0" S | 58° 59' 00.0" W | Strait |
| Name ID: 100885 Place ID: 4589 | |||
| Fildes, Estrecho (CHL) | 62° 14' 00.0" S | 58° 57' 00.0" W | Strait |
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Name ID: 105549
Place ID: 4589
Este estrecho fue conocido por los cazadores de focas de esta área en 1822, pero ya antes había figurado en las cartas como estrecho Field's. Su nombre probablemente se debe a Robert Fildes, cazador inglés de focas de aquella época. Estrecho que se extiende en dirección WNW-ESE entre las islas Rey Jorge y Nelson, en las islas Shetland del Sur. El estrecho mide 8 millas de largo por un ancho medio de 2 cables. Es sucio y está ocupado por islotes, rocas y bajos fondos que obstruyen el paso e impiden su navegación. |
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