Mackellar Inlet
| Mackellar Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Admiralty Bay ( Bransfield Street ) | |
| Land mass | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Domeyko Glacier | |
The Mackellar Inlet is a bay on the northwestern tip end of the Admiralty Bay on King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands .
It was mapped in 1909 by the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot on the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910). The namesake is probably Campbell Duncan Mackellar (1859-1925), a sponsor of the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson .
Web links
- Mackellar Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mackellar Inlet on geographic.org (English)