Revelle Inlet
| Revelle Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Palmerland , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 40 ′ S , 63 ° 26 ′ W | |
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| width | approx. 25 km | |
The Revelle Inlet is a large, icy bay at the Wilkins Coast of Palmer Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located on the southeastern side of the Hollick Kenyon Peninsula between Cape Agassiz in the north and Cape Keeler in the south.
The bay was on the flight routes of the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and the US polar explorer Hubert Wilkins in 1935, but it was not until 1940 that scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) made a mapping. Participants of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) also paid a visit to the bay. Their expedition leader, the American polar explorer Finn Ronne , named them after Roger Revelle (1909-1991), oceanographer at the Scripps Institute for Oceanographic Research , who had advised the Ronne expedition on the equipment.
Web links
- Revelle Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Revelle Inlet on geographic.org (English)