Nantucket Inlet
| Nantucket Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 32 ′ S , 61 ° 59 ′ W | |
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| width | approx. 10 km | |
| depth | approx. 22 km | |
| Tributaries | Johnston Glacier | |
The Nantucket Inlet is an ice-covered, about 22 km long and up to 10 km wide bay on the Lassiter Coast of Palmer Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies in a northwest-southeast orientation between the Smith Peninsula and the Bowman Peninsula .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered it on a flight from East Base on Stonington Island on December 30, 1940. It is named after the island of Nantucket off the coast of the US state of Massachusetts , which is in the Was a whaling stronghold in New England in the 19th century .
Web links
- Nantucket Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nantucket Inlet on geographic.org (English)