Shackleton Inlet
| Shackleton Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
| Land mass | Transantarctic Mountains , Ross Dependency | |
| Geographical location | 82 ° 19 ′ S , 164 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| width | 16 km | |
| Tributaries | Nimrod Glacier | |
The Shackleton Inlet is about 16 km wide bay at the Shackleton Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It lies between Cape Wilson and Cape Lyttelton and forms the inlet of the Nimrod Glacier from the Transantarctic Mountains into the Ross Ice Shelf .
Robert Falcon Scott named the bay in the course of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) after the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), who, together with Scott and Edward Adrian Wilson, set a new record on this expedition in the closest approximation to the geographic area Had set up the South Pole.
Web links
- Shackleton Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shackleton Inlet on geographic.org (English)