Potaka Inlet
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 Map of Thurston Island with Potaka Inlet (center left) |
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| Waters | Bellingshausen lake | |
| Land mass | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 2 ′ S , 99 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| length | 13 km | |
| Tributaries | McCarty Glacier | |
The Potaka Inlet is a narrow, 13 km long and icy bay in the north of Thurston Island before Eights Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It lies between the Starr and 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 1960 after the New Zealander Louis Hauiti Potaka (1901-1936), medical officer in the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Potaka Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Potaka Inlet on geographic.org (English)