Loper Channel (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Loper Channel (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Channel
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
running E-W between Elephant Island and Gibbs Island. The name was originally applied to the channel between Elephant Island and King George Island after Richard Fanning Loper, Second Mate in the American sloop Hero, 1820-21 (Hero Bay, q.v.) (Martin, 1940, p.539 and map p.542; USHO, 1943, p.88). Proliv Loper (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). Loper Strait (Soviet Union. GUGK map 221, 1973). Pasaje Espirítu Santo [=Holy Ghost passage] (Argentina. MM chart H-710, 1977). The name Loper Channel was later restricted to the present feature (APC, 1980, p.4).
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