Hero Inlet
| Hero Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Bismarck Street | |
| Land mass | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 46 ′ 35 ″ S , 64 ° 2 ′ 41 ″ W | |
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The Hero Inlet is a narrow bay on the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is bounded by the Gamage Point and Bonaparte Point headlands .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the bay in 1970 after the research vessel RV Hero , which had supplied the Palmer station on Gamage Point since the late 1960s .
Web links
- Hero Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hero Inlet on geographic.org (English)