Gerlache Strait
Gerlache Strait or de Gerlache Strait or Détroit de la Belgica is a channel/strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula. The Belgian Antarctic Expedition, under Lt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Channel
- Description: strait in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Belgica Strait”, “de Gerlache Strait”, and “De Gerlache, Détroit”
Gerlache Strait
- Categories: strait and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Gerlache Strait” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مضيق جيرلاش”
- Azerbaijani: “Jerlaş boğazı”
- Bulgarian: “Жерлаш (проток)”
- Bulgarian: “Жерлаш”
- Cebuano: “De Gerlanche”
- Chinese: “热尔拉什海峡”
- Dutch: “Belgicastraat”
- Dutch: “de Gerlachestraat”
- Dutch: “Gerlachestraat”
- French: “Détroit de Gerlache”
- French: “Détroit de la Belgica”
- German: “Belgica-Straße”
- German: “de Gerlache-Straße”
- German: “Gerlache-Straße”
- Hebrew: “מצר ז’רלאש”
- Italian: “Stretto di Gerlache”
- Latvian: “Belgica Strait”
- Latvian: “Belžikas šaurums”
- Latvian: “Détroit de Belgica”
- Latvian: “Détroit de Gerlache”
- Latvian: “Gerlache Strait”
- Latvian: “Žerlaša šaurums”
- Macedonian: “Жерлаш”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gerlachekanalen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gerlachestredet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gerlache Strait”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gerlachesundet”
- Norwegian: “Gerlachestredet”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Gerlache’a”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Gerlache”
- Russian: “Жерлаш”
- Spanish: “De Gerlache, Estrecho”
- Spanish: “De Gerlanche, estrecho”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Gerlache”
- Swedish: “De Gerlanche”
- Swedish: “Gerlachesundet”
- Turkish: “Gerlache Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Жерлаш”
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