The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) long and from 7 to 12 nautical miles (13 to 22 km; 8 to 14 mi) wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld for the expedition ship Antarctic which in 1902, under the command of Carl Anton Larsen, was the first vessel to navigate it.[1] Since 1998 cruise ships have been visiting the area.
^Mills, William J. (2003). Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-57607-422-0.
The AntarcticSound is a body of water about 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) long and from 7 to 12 nautical miles (13 to 22 km; 8 to 14 mi) wide, separating...
The Antarctic (/ænˈtɑːrtɪk/ or /ænˈtɑːrktɪk/, American English also /æntˈɑːrtɪk/ or /æntˈɑːrktɪk/; commonly /æˈnɑːrtɪk/) is a polar region around Earth's...
69°30′S 65°00′W / 69.500°S 65.000°W / -69.500; -65.000 The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina...
The Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni), also known as the Antarctic cod, is a large, black or brown fish found in very cold (subzero) waters of...
American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand–claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in...
Bio-duck, a quacking-like sound produced by the Antarctic minke whale. The Ping, described as "acoustic anomalies" whose "sound[s] scare sea animals". It...
of the Antarctic Peninsula. The peninsula extends in a southeast direction from the tip of Trinity Peninsula. It is separated by AntarcticSound from the...
United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or...
the Taylor Glacier. The valleys are located within the McMurdo Valleys Antarctic Specially Managed Area (ASMA-2). The Dry Valleys are so named because...
lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by the AntarcticSound. Joinville Island lies in Graham Land to...
Island at the west side of the south entrance to AntarcticSound, off the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is a volcanic island of the James...
The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was an era in the exploration of the continent of Antarctica which began at the end of the 19th century, and ended...
physical and biological properties of sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica". Antarctic Science. 20 (6): 593–604. Bibcode:2008AntSc..20..593R....
from Cape Adare to McMurdo Sound, the Ross Ice Shelf from McMurdo Sound to near the Scott Glacier, and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet beyond. The large...
1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of...
Wilkins Sound is a seaway in Antarctica that is largely occupied by the Wilkins Ice Shelf. It is located on the southwest side of the Antarctic Peninsula...
miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on AntarcticSound. Hope Bay is in Graham Land on the north coast of...
referred to as the sea leopard, is the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic (after the southern elephant seal). Its only natural predator is the orca...
1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second...
Ice Shelf, Larsen Ice Shelf, Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf (all three in the Antarctic) and the disruption of the Ellesmere Ice Shelf in the Arctic. An ice shelf...
90°00′S 0°00′W / 90.000°S -0.000°E / -90.000; -0.000 The Antarctic realm is one of eight terrestrial biogeographic realms. The ecosystem includes Antarctica...
Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus...
the southwest side of Bransfield Island in AntarcticSound. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (1963) for George K. Archibald...
and flowing south into McMurdo Ice Shelf. List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands McMurdo Sound Ross Sea Ross Bank Alberts 1995, p. 631. Ross Island...
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