Murphy Inlet
| Murphy Inlet | ||
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 Map of Thurston Island with Murphy Inlet (top center) |
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| Waters | Bellingshausen lake | |
| Land mass | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 1 ′ S , 97 ° 15 ′ W | |
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| length | 29 km | |
| Tributaries | Mincer Glacier , Pelter Glacier , Warr Glacier | |
The Murphy Inlet is 29 km long and icy bay with two parallel side arms at the head of the north of Thurston Island before Eights Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It lies between the Noville and Edwards Peninsula . The Warr Glacier flows north into the southwest branch of Murphy Inlet.
The position of the bay was determined from aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy in December 1946 during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1960 after Charles John Vincent Murphy (1904–1987), assistant to the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd for processing the results of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) and a member of Byrd's second Antarctic expedition (1933) -1935).
Web links
- Murphy Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murphy Inlet on geographic.org (English)