The strait from Livingston Island, with Antarctic Peninsula seen on the horizon
Bransfield Strait
Location
South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Coordinates
63°S59°W / 63°S 59°W / -63; -59
Etymology
Edward Bransfield, who chartered the South Shetland Islands
Max. length
300 miles (500 km)
Max. width
100 kilometres (60 mi)
Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea (Spanish: Estrecho de Bransfield, Mar de la Flota) is a body of water about 100 kilometres (60 mi) wide extending for 300 miles (500 km) in a general northeast – southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.
BransfieldStrait or Fleet Sea (Spanish: Estrecho de Bransfield, Mar de la Flota) is a body of water about 100 kilometres (60 mi) wide extending for 300...
Oceans portal Elizabeth Island (Cape Horn) Garcia de Nodal expedition BransfieldStrait Sars Bank Timeline of Francis Drake's circumnavigation "6 men become...
grave after her death in 1863. Bransfield Island, BransfieldStrait, Bransfield Trough, Bransfield Rocks, and Mount Bransfield were all named in his honour...
of Nothria notialis (Monro) and Paronuphis antarctica (Monro) in BransfieldStrait, Antarctic Peninsula". Proc. Symp. Pacific-Antarctic Sci. Tokyo, JARE...
iceberg(s) involved in generating the sound were most likely between BransfieldStrait and the Ross Sea; or possibly at Cape Adare, a well-known source of...
Island Boundary Pass – between British Columbia and Washington state BransfieldStrait – between South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula Bungo Channel...
administered under the Antarctic Treaty System. Located within the BransfieldStrait, the island is roughly circular and horseshoe-shaped, with a maximum...
(underwater volcano) near King George Island in Antarctica, in the BransfieldStrait. While it is inactive,[citation needed] last volcanic activity at...
Peninsula. Its mouth is in Bone Bay on the BransfieldStrait, northeast of Charcot Bay, east of the Orléans Strait, south of Astrolabe Island and southwest...
because of their exposed, isolated position on the south side of BransfieldStrait. 63°08′S 55°29′W / 63.133°S 55.483°W / -63.133; -55.483. A small...
the BransfieldStrait. The strait was named in 1823 by a British expedition under James Weddell for Captain David Boyd, Royal Navy. Boyd Strait is located...
and aligned with the axis of the Bransfield Rift indicate that the newly formed oceanic crust in the BransfieldStrait is roughly 1.3 million years old...
sometimes named Penguin Line. This alignment may be a consequence of BransfieldStrait rifting and normal faults linked to the rift, although Melville Peak...
McFarlane Strait, and from Snow Island to the west-southwest by the 5.9 km (3.7 mi)-wide Morton Strait. Deception Island, situated in BransfieldStrait barely...
"The Cold Carbonate Connection Between Mono Lake, California and the BransfieldStrait, Antarctica". Aquatic Geochemistry. 4 (3/4): 429–454. doi:10.1023/A:1009696617671...
which itself is the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It faces the BransfieldStrait, which the Antarctic Sound enters to its east. Casy Island and Coupvent...
Trinity Peninsula and Nordenskjöld Coast areas, and in 1966 in the BransfieldStrait. 64°37′S 60°42′W / 64.617°S 60.700°W / -64.617; -60.700. A rocky...
is an island 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) long, lying in the BransfieldStrait 14 nautical miles (26 km; 16 mi) northwest of Cape Ducorps, Trinity...
Peninsula and Cape Ducorps. It is southeast of Astrolabe Island, in the BransfieldStrait. The Louis Philippe Plateau is to the south and the Laclavère Plateau...
accompanied Edward Bransfield on the brig Williams in January 1820 when explorations were made in the South Shetland Islands and BransfieldStrait. 63°45′37″S...
It is bounded by False Bay and its segment Inept Cove to the west, BransfieldStrait to the southeast and Brunow Bay to the east. Its interior is occupied...
and Jane Banks; the South Orkney Islands and Elephant Island. The BransfieldStrait, finally, separates the arc from the South Shetland Islands and James...
Fragment of George Powell's 1822 chart of the South Shetland Islands showing the phantom Middle Island (bottom right) in BransfieldStrait, Antarctica...
Bellingshausen Sea (57°18' – 102°20'W) Part of the Drake Passage (54° – 68°W) BransfieldStrait (54° – 62°W) Part of the Scotia Sea (26°30' – 65°W) A number of these...