Britten Inlet
| Britten Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Ronne Entrance | |
| Land mass | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 34 ′ 9 ″ S , 72 ° 30 ′ 45 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Britten Ice Shelf , Rachmaninoff Glacier | |
The Britten Inlet is a bay in the south of the West Antarctic Alexander Island . It is located on the southwest side of the Monteverdi Peninsula and is occupied by the Britten Ice Shelf .
The position of the bay was determined from Landsat images from January 1973. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on December 8, 1977 in connection with the ice shelf of the same name after the British composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976).
Web links
- Britten Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Britten Inlet on geographic.org (English)