Carlson Inlet

Carlson Inlet
Waters	Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf , Weddell Sea , Southern Ocean
Land mass	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Geographical location	77 ° 50 ′ S , 80 ° 0 ′ W Coordinates: 77 ° 50 ′ S , 80 ° 0 ′ W
width	40 km
length	160 km

The Carlson Inlet is a 160 km long and 40 km wide bay at the Zumberge Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It is located in the southwestern part of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf between the Fletcher Ice Rise and the Fowler Ice Rise .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the bay in 1979 after Lieutenant Ronald F. Carlson (* 1929) of the United States Navy , pilot of an R4D-8 and a C-130 of the VX-6 flight squadron, who performed numerous flights in support of research activities in the Performed under the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958) and the United States Antarctic Research Program in the 1950s and 1960s. Among them was a flight from McMurdo Station over the Ellsworth Mountains on December 14, 1961, during which the bay was photographed and sketched.

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