
Wilkins Sound
(Alexander Island)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 70° 27' 32" S 73° 4' 51" W
between Alexander Island to E and S, Charcot Island and Latady Island to W, and Rothschild Island to N. The N entrance was roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, in January 1910 and described as 'a vast estuary encumbered by ice'; seen from the air by Wilkins, 29 December 1929, during the flight in which he established the insularity of Charcot Island (q.v.), and sketched from the air in c.70°30'S 72°00'W by the United States Antarctic Service, November-December 1940; named Wilkins Strait after Sir Hubert Wilkins (Wilkins Coast, (q.v.). The sound was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947. The sound was mapped from air photographs by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1959.