Antarctic Sound
The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about 30 nautical miles long and from 7 to 12 nautical miles wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula.- Channel
- Description: strait in Antarctica
- Categories
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-63.33333° or 63° 20′ south
Longitude
-56.75° or 56° 45′ west
Open location code
3885M782+M2
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Antarctic Sound” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Antarktik boğazı”
- Bulgarian: “Антарктик (проток)”
- Bulgarian: “Антарктик”
- Cebuano: “Antarctic”
- Chinese: “南極海峽”
- Dutch: “Antarctic Sound”
- French: “Antarctic Sound”
- French: “Détroit Antarctique”
- German: “Antarctic Sound”
- German: “Antarctic-Sund”
- Greek: “Ανταρκτικός Πορθμός”
- Hebrew: “המצר האנטארקטי”
- Japanese: “南極海峡”
- Latvian: “Antarctic Sound”
- Latvian: “Antarctic-Sund”
- Latvian: “Antarktīdas šaurums”
- Latvian: “Antarktikas šaurums”
- Latvian: “Estrecho Antarctic”
- Latvian: “Paso Antarctic”
- Mirandese: “Anseada Antártica”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Antarctic Sound”
- Persian: “آبراهه جنوبگان”
- Polish: “Antarctic Sound”
- Portuguese: “Enseada Antártica”
- Russian: “Антарктик”
- Russian: “Антарктический пролив”
- Spanish: “Antarctic, estrecho”
- Spanish: “Antarctic, Paso”
- Spanish: “Estrecho Antarctic”
- Swedish: “Antarctic Sound”
- Swedish: “Antarctic”
- Turkish: “Antarktika Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Антарктична протока”
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