Bransfield Strait
Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea is a body of water about 100 kilometres wide extending for 300 miles in a general northeast – southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Strait
- Description: strait
- Also known as: “Fleet Sea”
Bransfield Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.80823° or 62° 48′ 30″ southLongitude
-58.28713° or 58° 17′ 14″ westOpen location code
38935PR7+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 9515115025OpenStreetMap feature
natural=straitGeoNames ID
6629641Wikidata ID
Q898839
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Bransfield Strait” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Bransfild boğazı”
- Basque: “Bransfield itsasartea”
- Basque: “Bransfieldeko itsasartea”
- Bulgarian: “Брансфийлд (пролив)”
- Bulgarian: “Брансфийлд”
- Catalan: “Bransfield Strait”
- Catalan: “Estret Bransfield”
- Catalan: “estret de Bransfield”
- Catalan: “Estret de Bransfield”
- Catalan: “Mar de la Flota”
- Cebuano: “Flota”
- Chinese: “布蘭斯菲爾德海峽”
- Czech: “Bransfieldův průliv”
- Dutch: “Bransfield Strait”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برانسفيلد سترايت”
- Esperanto: “Markolo de Bransfield”
- Finnish: “Bransfieldinsalmi”
- French: “détroit de Bransfield”
- French: “Détroit de Bransfield”
- German: “Bransfield Strait”
- German: “Bransfield-Straße”
- German: “Bransfieldstraße”
- Hebrew: “מצר ברנספילד”
- Indonesian: “Selat Bransfield”
- Italian: “Stretto di Bransfield”
- Japanese: “ブランスフィールド海峡”
- Japanese: “ブランズフィールド海峡”
- Latvian: “Bransfield Strait”
- Latvian: “Bransfīlda šaurums”
- Latvian: “Brensfīlda šaurums”
- Latvian: “Estrecho de Bransfield”
- Latvian: “Flotes jūra”
- Latvian: “Mar de la Flota”
- Macedonian: “Бренсфилдов Проток”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bransfield-sundet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bransfieldstredet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bransfieldsundet”
- Norwegian: “Bransfieldstredet”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Bransfielda”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de bransfield”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Bransfield”
- Russian: “Брансфилд (пролив)”
- Russian: “Брансфилд”
- Slovak: “Bransfieldov prieliv”
- Spanish: “Bransfield, Estrecho”
- Spanish: “estrecho Bransfield”
- Spanish: “estrecho de bransfield”
- Spanish: “estrecho de Bransfield”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Bransfield”
- Spanish: “Flota, mar de la”
- Spanish: “mar de la Flota”
- Spanish: “Mar de la Flota”
- Swedish: “Bransfield Strait”
- Swedish: “Bransfieldsundet”
- Swedish: “Flota”
- Ukrainian: “Брансфілд”
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