Larsen Inlet
| Larsen Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 26 ′ S , 59 ° 28 ′ W | |
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| width | 11 km | |
| depth | 20 km | |
| Tributaries | Eliason Glacier , Polaris Glacier , Pyke Glacier | |
The Larsen Inlet is a north-south orientation of about 20 km long and 11 km wide bay at the Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . Your entrance is limited by Cape Longing and Cape Sobral .
The Norwegian Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen (1860-1924), after whom it is named, reported in 1893 as part of his voyage with the Jason (1892-1894) about a large bay in this area. It was named in 1902 at the suggestion of the US mountaineer and writer Edwin Swift Balch (1856-1927). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey identified and mapped the bay in 1947.
Larsen Inlet was originally filled by the Larsen Ice Shelf and has been largely free of ice since 1989.
Web links
- Larsen Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Larsen Inlet on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ferrigno, JG et al., 2006, Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Trinity Peninsula area and South Shetland Islands, Antarctica — 1843–2001: US Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series Map I – 2600 – A, 1 map sheet, 32- p. text.