Active Sound
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Active Sound is a sound
, averaging 2 miles (3 km) wide, extending in an east-northeast direction from Antarctic Sound
and joining the Firth of Tay
with which it separates Joinville
and Dundee Island
s. Discovered in 1892–93 by Captain Thomas Robertson of the Dundee whaling expedition
. Robertson named the feature after his ship, the Active, first vessel to navigate the sound.
Sound (geography)
In geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord; or it may be defined as a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....
, averaging 2 miles (3 km) wide, extending in an east-northeast direction from Antarctic Sound
Antarctic Sound
Antarctic Sound is a body of water about long and from wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld for the expedition ship Antarctic which in 1902, under the command...
and joining the Firth of Tay
Firth of Tay (Antarctica)
Firth of Tay is a sound, 12 miles long and 6 miles wide, extending in a NW-SE direction between the northeast side of Dundee Island and the east portion of Joinville Island. It merges to the northwest with Active Sound with which it completes the separation of Dundee and Joinville Islands...
with which it separates Joinville
Joinville Island
Joinville Island is the largest island of the Joinville Island group, about long in an east-west direction and wide, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by the Antarctic Sound...
and Dundee Island
Dundee Island
Dundee Island is an ice-covered island lying east of the northeastern tip of Antarctic Peninsula and south of Joinville Island.On January 8, 1893, during the Dundee Whaling Expedition, the island was named by Captain Thomas Robertson of the Active and named for the home port, Dundee, Scotland,...
s. Discovered in 1892–93 by Captain Thomas Robertson of the Dundee whaling expedition
Dundee Whaling Expedition
The Dundee Whaling Expedition began on 6 September 1892, when a Dundee, Scotland whaling company, due to dwindling arctic whaling resources, decided to gamble and sent four steam-powered whaling ships, the Balaena, Active, Diana and Polar Star, to the Weddell Sea in search of Right Whales...
. Robertson named the feature after his ship, the Active, first vessel to navigate the sound.