Choiseul Sound

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Choiseul Sound viewed from Darwin
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Location of Choiseul Sound (in blue at right)

Choiseul Sound (Script error: No such module "IPAc-en". Script error: No such module "Respell".) is a stretch of sea in the Falkland Islands. It runs parallel to Eagle Passage and is between Lafonia and the north of East Falkland. Lively Island is in its mouth. At its entrance, on the northern shore, is the Bertha's Beach Important Bird Area which is also a Ramsar site, recognising it as a wetland of international importance.

It was named by Louis de Bougainville after the French Foreign Secretary, Étienne François, duc de Choiseul.[1]

The name is pronounced "Chisel" in Falkland Islands dialect.[2]

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  2. Richard Munro, Place Names of the Falkland Islands, 1998, p. 18.

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