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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Le Maire, canal (ARG) | 65° 05' 00.0" S | 63° 59' 00.0" W | Channel |
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| Lemaire Channel (GBR) | 65° 05' 00.0" S | 63° 59' 00.0" W | Channel |
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Name ID: 109791
Place ID: 8308
running from NE, between Splitwind Island and False Cape Renard, to SW, between Roullin Point and Cape Cloos, and separating Booth Island from Graham Coast, was sighted by GAE, 1873-74, in 1874; first navigated and roughly charted by BeAE, 12 February 1898, and named Chenal Lemaire after Capt. Charles Lemaire, Belgian explorer of the Congo, who helped with the organization of BeAE (Lecointe, map, 1899). Lemaire Strait (Cook, 1900, map p.xx). Chenal de Lemaire (Lecointe, 1900a, map facing p.132; 1903, Carte 5). Lemaire Channel (Arçtowski, 1901b, map facing p.464; BA, 1930, p.85; chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; APC, 1955, p.13; DOS 610 sheet W 6564, 1959; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960). Canale di Lemaire (Gerlache, 1902a). Canal Lemaire (Nordenskjöld and others, [1904c], map p.232-33; Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.96; Pierrou, 1970, p.477; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.181). Lemaire Kanal (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol.2, first end map). Lemaires Kanal (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del.1, end map). The channel was further charted by FAE, 1903-05, in 1904. Estrecho de Lemaire (Riso Patron S., 1908, p.10). Canal de Lemaire, Canal de Lemiare [sic] (Gourdon, [1910], p.132, 136). Lemaires Channel (ICRD, 1920, map following p.iv). The channel was recharted by BGLE in 1935, when it was shown as extending SW to Duseberg Buttress (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.400). Détroit de Lemaire (France. SHM, 1937, p.407). Estrecho Lemaire (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947). Lemaire (France. SHM, 1954, p.48). The channel was photographed from the air by FIDASE and re-charted by FIDS-RN, 1956-58. Le Maire Kanaal (Knapp, 1958, p.578). |
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| Lemaire Channel (USA) | 65° 04' 00.0" S | 63° 57' 00.0" W | Channel |
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Name ID: 127926
Place ID: 8308
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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| Lemaire, Canal (CHL) | 65° 04' 00.0" S | 63° 57' 00.0" W | Channel |
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Name ID: 105827
Place ID: 8308
Descubierto por una Expedición Alemana que realizó trabajos en el área entre los años 1873-1874 al mando de capitán Eduard Dallmann en el buque "Grönland". Fue navegado en diciembre de 1898 por la Expedición Antártica Belga, bajo la dirección del teniente Adrien de Gerlache y denominado por él, en honor a C. Lemaire, explorador Belga del Congo. |
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