Prince Gustav Channel

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Prince Gustav Channel is a narrow waterway off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, historically important as a shipping route and for studies of ice-shelf retreat and climate change.

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Prince Gustav Channel canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf channel
strait
chartedBy Otto Nordenskjöld
connects Weddell Sea
northwestern part of the Weddell Sea
countryClaimedBy Argentina
Chile
United Kingdom
environmentalConcern changes in sea-ice conditions
ice-shelf loss
environmentalSignificance indicator of regional warming on Antarctic Peninsula
governedByTreaty Antarctic Treaty System
hasClimate polar climate
hasFeature Prince Gustav Ice Shelf (former)
hasLegalStatus no sovereign ownership recognized under international law
hasNearbyIsland James Ross Island
hasNearbyPeninsula Trinity Peninsula
hasSeaIce seasonal sea ice
hasSedimentRecord Holocene climate variability
Last Glacial Maximum retreat
historicalUse seal hunting route
shipping route
iceShelfCollapseYearApprox 1995
iceShelfRetreatObserved Prince Gustav Ice Shelf
isExampleOf rapid ice-shelf disintegration area
isMonitoredBy marine sediment coring
remote sensing
satellite imagery
knownFor climate change research
ice-shelf retreat studies
palaeoclimate reconstructions
locatedIn Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctica
Graham Land
Weddell Sea
namedAfter Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden
orientation north–south
partOf Southern Ocean
region northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula
separates James Ross Island
Trinity Peninsula
surveyedBy Swedish Antarctic Expedition
surveyedDuring 1901–1904
usedFor glaciological research
marine geology research
oceanographic research
widthApprox narrow

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Russell East Glacier flowsInto Prince Gustav Channel
James Ross Island separatedBy Prince Gustav Channel
James Ross Island hasNearbyFeature Prince Gustav Channel
northern Trinity Peninsula hasPart Prince Gustav Channel