Yalour Sound

Yalour Sound is a sea passage one mile wide and four miles long, usually ice bound, linking Fridtjof Sound and Antarctic Sound, separating Jonassen Island from Andersson Island, off the Trinity Peninsula.

The sound was surveyed by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in January 1902. It was named Estrecho Capitan Yalour by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition after Lieutenant Jorge Yalour, who accompanied the Uruguay in its relief expedition of 1903 to rescue the men of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.

The sound was further surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Hope Bay in 1960-61.

Location

• Location map: 63°33’39"S, 56°39’30"W

References

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