Bach Inlet
Bach Inlet | ||
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Topographical map sheet Beethoven Peninsula (1: 250,000) with the Bach Inlet, marked here in the form of the Bach Ice Shelf (bottom right) |
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Waters | Ronne Entrance | |
Land mass | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
Geographical location | 72 ° 0 ′ 31 ″ S , 72 ° 11 ′ 37 ″ W | |
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Tributaries | Brook Ice Shelf |
The Bach Inlet is mostly from the Bach Ice Shelf occupied bay in the southwest of the West Antarctic Alexander Island . Your entrance is between Berlioz Point and Rossini Point . The Boccherini Inlet , the Williams Inlet and Stravinsky Inlet are by bays.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1978 in connection with the ice shelf of the same name. Its namesake is the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750).
Web links
- Bach Inlet in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)