{{About|Tasmania | the Canadian Arctic waterway |Franklin Strait}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} right|thumb|200px|Franklin Sound south of Flinders Island
'''Franklin Sound''' is a narrow waterway between the two largest islands, Flinders Island and Cape Barren Island in the Furneaux Group, at the southeastern end of Bass Strait, between Victoria and Tasmania, Australia.<ref name="USSD 1994" />
== History == Named after British explorer and Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (1836–1843), Sir John Franklin (1786–1847).<ref name="Edgecombe 1986" />
Numerous sandbanks and small islands obstruct the sound and the tidal stream runs at 2 to 3 knots.<ref name="USSD 1994" />
== References == <references>
<ref name="Edgecombe 1986">{{cite book | last = Edgecombe | first = J. | title = Flinders Island and Eastern Bass Strait | publisher = J.M. Edgecombe | year = 1986 | isbn = 978-1-86252-767-6 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3MDiAAAAMAAJ | access-date = 14 November 2024 | page = 130 | quote = FRANKLIN SOUND was named by Captain Stokes after Sir John Franklin, a distinguished naval officer and explorer, who became Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania in 1837. }}</ref> <ref name="USSD 1994">{{cite book | title = Sailing Directions (enroute): East Coast of Australia and New Zealand | publisher = The Center | series = Pub. (United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic/Topographic Center) | year = 1994 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=142X6gpMyNUC&pg=PA41 | access-date = 14 November 2024 | pages = 41 ff }}</ref>
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Category:Furneaux Group
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