Peale inlet
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 Map of Thurston Island with Peale Inlet (top center) |
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| Waters | Bellingshausen lake | |
| Land mass | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 1 ′ S , 98 ° 58 ′ W | |
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| length | 26 km | |
| Tributaries | Litz Glacier , Robbins Glacier | |
The Peale Inlet is a 26-km long and icy bay in the north of Thurston Island before Eights Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It is located immediately west of the Noville Peninsula and is bounded to the west by the Kearns Peninsula .
Your position 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 1955 after the American naturalist and artist Titian Peale (1799-1885), a participant in the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) led by polar explorer Charles Wilkes .
Web links
- Peale Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peale Inlet on geographic.org (English)