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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Matha Strait (RUS) 66° 35' 00.0" S 67° 00' 00.0" W Strait
Name ID: 119275 Place ID: 9128

Matha Strait (GBR) 66° 33' 00.0" S 67° 26' 00.0" W Strait
Name ID: 110037 Place ID: 9128

running NW-SE between Biscoe Islands to NE and Adelaide Island to SW, was roughly charted by FAE, 1908-10, in January-February 1909, when the name Baie Matha was applied collectively to the present feature and parts of Crystal Sound (q.v.) and Darbel Bay (q.v.), after Lieut. André Matha (b. 1873), of the French Navy, Second-in-Command and hydrographer on FAE, 1903-05 (Charcot, 1910, map facing p.370; Bongrain, 1914, vue 7 following p.60; BA, 1916, p.408). Bahía Matha (Gourdon, [1910], p.130). Matha Bay (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914; 1930, p.87). Matha B. (HA chart, 1927). Matha-Bukta (Risting, 1929, map p.33). Mathabukten (Aagaard, 1930, end map). Martha [sic] Bay (Carey and Nelson, 1931a; James, 1949, p.56). Following further survey by BGLE, the name Matha Strait was restricted to the present feature (Rymill, 1938a, p.443 and map facing p.496; BA chart 3175, 1.iii.1940; APC, 1955, p.15; DCS 601 sheet 66 66, 1955; BA chart 3571, 14.7.1961). Matha Bucht (Stocks, chart, 1941). Estrecho de Matha (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.272). Estrecho Matha (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.510; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.196). Détroit Martha [sic], Détroit Matha (France. SHM, 1954, p.49). The strait was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Matha (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.151). Matha Baai (Knapp, 1958, p.579). Stretto Matha (Zavatti, 1958, Tav.9). Proliv Mata (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).

Matha Strait (USA) 66° 34' 00.0" S 67° 30' 00.0" W Strait
Name ID: 128532 Place ID: 9128

Strait lying between Adelaide Island and the S end of the Biscoe Islands. The strait takes its name from Matha Bay, the name originally applied by Charcot, leader of the FrAE, 1908-10, to the water feature as he conceived it. The BGLE under Rymill, 1934-37, recognizing that it is really a strait rather than a bay, changed the name to Matha Strait. Named for Lt. A. Matha, second-in-command of the FrAE, 1903-05, under Charcot.

Matha, estrecho (ARG) 66° 30' 00.0" S 67° 25' 00.0" W Strait
Name ID: 101505 Place ID: 9128

Matha, Estrecho (CHL) 66° 32' 00.0" S 67° 30' 00.0" W Strait
Name ID: 105919 Place ID: 9128

El estrecho tomó este nombre de la bahía Matha, nombre original dado por el Dr. Jean B. Charcot, jefe de la Expedición Antártica Francesa de los años 1908-1910, quien le dio este nombre por la forma de bahía que tomaban las aguas. La Expedición Británica, 1934-1937, al mando del comandante John Rymill, reconoció que en realidad se trataba de un estrecho y no de una bahía, cambiando el nombre a estrecho Matha. Recibió su nombre en honor al teniente A. Matha, segundo comandante de la Expedición Antártica Francesa, que se llevó a efecto entre los años 1903-1905, bajo la dirección del Dr. Jean B. Charcot.

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