Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

The Gullet

(Loubet Coast)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 67° 9' 58" S 67° W
between Arrowsmith Peninsula and Adelaide Island, S of Hansen Island and N of Day Island, Loubet Coast, was presumed to exist but not seen by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, following survey in January 1909, and tentatively shown as a channel; called Charcot Strait after J. B. Charcot (Charcot Bay, q.v.); seen from the air and surveyed from the ground by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1936, when it was found to be narrower than indicated by the French Antarctic Expedition; called Loubet Strait in association with the coast; following resurvey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island' in 1948, named The Gullet because the feature forms a constriction through which the tide flows between Hanusse Bay to the N and Laubeuf Fjord to the S.