# Franklin Sound

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{{About|[Tasmania](/source/Tasmania) | the [Canadian Arctic](/source/Canadian_Arctic) waterway |Franklin Strait}}
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right|thumb|200px|Franklin Sound south of Flinders Island

'''Franklin Sound''' is a narrow waterway between the two largest islands, [Flinders Island](/source/Flinders_Island) and [Cape Barren Island](/source/Cape_Barren_Island) in the [Furneaux Group](/source/Furneaux_Group), at the southeastern end of [Bass Strait](/source/Bass_Strait), between [Victoria](/source/Victoria_(Australia)) and [Tasmania](/source/Tasmania), [Australia](/source/Australia).<ref name="USSD 1994" />

== History ==
Named after British explorer and [Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land](/source/Governors_of_Tasmania) (1836–1843), Sir [John Franklin](/source/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>

</references>

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Category:Furneaux Group

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