Cacapon Inlet
| Cacapon Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
| Land mass | Highjump Archipelago , Wilkesland | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 10 ′ S , 101 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| width | 3 km | |
| length | 14.5 km | |
| Islands | Fuller Island , Thomas Island | |
The Cacapon Inlet is a fjord-like bay between the Thomas Island and Fuller Island amid the High Jump archipelago . It is limited to the west by the Edisto glacier tongue and to the east by the Knox coast of Wilkesland .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the USS Cacapon , a tanker used on this expedition .
Web links
- Cacapon Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cacapon Inlet on geographic.org (English)