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Nelson Channel

strait in the United Kingdom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6990421 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nelson Channel is a navigable channel between Candlemas and Vindication Island in Candlemas Islands group, in the South Sandwich Islands. First roughly charted by Captain James Cook, discoverer of these islands in 1775. Recharted in 1930 by DI personnel on the Discovery II, who gave the name "Nelson Strait" for Lieutenant Andrew Laidlaw Nelson, Royal Navy Reserve, chief officer and navigator of the ship. The name has been amended to avoid duplication with Nelson Strait in the South Shetland Islands.

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This article incorporates public domain material from "Nelson Channel". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nelson Channel” as strait in the United Kingdom. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1775, 1930—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Nelson, Channel and strait can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as strait in the United Kingdom. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6990421. Authority coordinates are -57.103, -26.773. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1775 and 1930.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nelson Channel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.