Adolphus Channel

Geographical location

The Adolphus Channel is a natural waterway about eight kilometers northeast of the Australian Cape York Peninsula. It represents the main link is between the Inner Route ( between the Queensland coast and the Great Barrier Reef ) and the Torres Strait, where it joins the west to the Great North East Channel, and in the east on Prince of Wales Channel. The waterway runs between the islands Albany Iceland in the south and just eight kilometers away Mount Adolphus Iceland in the north. He is considered difficult because there are many coral reefs that rise barely above the water surface. Only a 2,200 -foot-wide corridor is free of hazards.

Cape York, the northernmost point of the Australian continent, located on the west side of the north entrance to the Adolphus Channel.

History

On February 28, 1890, the British passenger ship RMS Quetta was in the Adolphus Channel on a submerged rock and sank. The rock was named Quetta skirt.