Barne Inlet
| Barne Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
| Land mass | Transantarctic Mountains , Ross Dependency | |
| Geographical location | 80 ° 15 ′ S , 160 ° 15 ′ E | |
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| width | 27 km | |
| Tributaries | Byrd glacier | |
 Map with the Byrd Glacier and Barne Inlet (top left) |
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The Barne Inlet is the approximately 27 kilometers wide inlet of the Byrd Glacier from the Transantarctic Mountains into the Ross Ice Shelf between Cape Kerr and Cape Selborne on the Hillary Coast in the Ross Dependency .
It was discovered by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . It is named after Lieutenant Michael Barne (1877–1961) of the Royal Navy , who explored the western coastline of the Ross Ice Shelf to this bay on this 1903 expedition together with George Mulock .
Web links
- Barne Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barne Inlet on geographic.org (English)