Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Lemaire Channel

(Wilhelm Archipelago)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 65° 4' 53" S 63° 57' 37" W
running from NE, between Splitwind Island and False Cape Renard, to SW, between Roullin Point and Cape Cloos, and separating Booth Island from Graham Coast, was sighted by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1873-74, in 1874; first navigated and roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 12 February 1898, and named Chenal Lemaire after Capt. Charles Lemaire, Belgian explorer of the Congo, who helped with the organization of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition. The channel was further charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, in 1904. The channel was recharted by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1935, when it was shown as extending SW to Duseberg Buttress. The channel was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition and re-charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey-RN, 1956-58.