Richards Inlet
| Richards Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
| Land mass | Transantarctic Mountains , Ross Dependency | |
| Geographical location | 83 ° 25 ′ S , 168 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| width | 20 km | |
| Tributaries | Lennox King Glacier | |
The Richards Inlet , this 20 kilometer wide bay at the Shackleton Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It represents the inlet of the Lennox King Glacier from the Transantarctic Mountains into the Ross Ice Shelf southeast of the Lewis Ridge .
The bay was named after the Australian physicist Richard W. Richards (1893-1985), a member of the Ross Sea Party during the Endurance Expedition (1914-1917 ) by participants in a campaign carried out from 1959 to 1960 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition ) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Richards Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Richards Inlet on geographic.org (English)