Dove Channel
Dove Channel is a narrow channel bisecting the Oliphant Islands, trending in an east–west direction between the two larger islands on the north and the main group of smaller islands and rocks on the south, lying 0.4 nautical miles south of Gourlay Peninsula, the southeast tip of Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Channel
- Description: narrow channel bisecting the Oliphant Islands
- Also known as: “Estrecho Dove”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oliphant Islands and Tilbrook Hill.
Oliphant Islands
Island
Oliphant Islands is a group of small ice-free islands and rocks lying south of Gourlay Peninsula, the southeast extremity of Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands. Dove Channel extends through this group in a general east-west direction.
Tilbrook Hill
Peak
Tilbrook Hill is a hill rising to 70 m between Hillier Moss and Caloplaca Cove in southeast Signy Island, South Orkney Islands. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1990 after Peter J.
Garnet Hill
Peak
Garnet Hill is a rocky hill, 230 metres high, rising above the east side of McLeod Glacier in the south part of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.
Dove Channel
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Dove Channel” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dove”
- Chinese: “達夫海峽”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دوڤ تشانيل”
- German: “Dove Channel”
- Spanish: “Dove, estrecho”
- Spanish: “Estrecho Dove”
- Swedish: “Dove Channel”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Svetlana Passage and Fur Seal Cove.
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