Fridtjof Sound

Fridtjof Sound is a sea channel six nautical miles long in a north–south direction and two nautical miles wide, which separates Andersson Island and Jonassen Island from the Tabarin Peninsula at the northeast end of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.

The sound was discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–04, under Otto Nordensköjld. It was named not after Fridtjof Nansen, at least not directly, but after the Fridtjof, a Norwegian whaling ship dispatched to search for the Swedish expedition when it was feared lost in 1903. The expedition had indeed been stranded when the Antarctic was trapped and crushed by the ice, but in the event, the Fridtjof arrived after the expedition has already been relieved by an Argentine ship, the Uruguay.

The sound was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Hope Bay in 1945-47.

See also

• Yalour Sound
• Fridtjof Island

Location

• Location map: 63°34’32"S, 56°43’46"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Fridtjof Sound