Basement inlet
| Basement inlet | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 16 ′ S , 61 ° 10 ′ W | |
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| width | 10 km | |
| depth | 16 km | |
| Tributaries | Barcus Glacier , Las Heras Glacier | |
The Keller Inlet is an icy bay with a northeast-southwest orientation on the Lassiter coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Cape Little and Cape Fiske .
Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) first photographed them from the air in December 1940. Further aerial photographs were taken in 1947 as part of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne , during which the mapping was carried out in cooperation with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Ronne named the bay after Louis Keller from Beaumont , Texas , who had provided supplies to the expedition.
Web links
- Keller Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Keller Inlet on geographic.org (English)