The Gullet

The Gullet is a channel off the west coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory, between the mainland Arrowsmith Peninsula and Adelaide Island. It washed the shore of the Loubet Coast, south of Hansen Island and north of Day Island.

Such a channel was presumed to exist but not seen by the French Antarctic Expedition of 1908-1910 under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, following a survey in January 1909. It was tentatively shown as a channel on the expedition chart, and later appears as 'Charcot Strait'.

The channel was 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 expedition, and initially called 'Loubet Strait' in association with the adjacent coast. Following a resurvey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Stonington Island" in 1948, the channel was named 'The Gullet' because the feature forms a constriction through which the tide flows between Hanusse Bay to the north and Laubeuf Fjord to the south.

Location

• Location map: 67°9’58"S, 67°39’0"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: The Gullet