Skelton Inlet
| Skelton Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
| Land mass | Transantarctic Mountains , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 54 ′ S , 162 ° 15 ′ E | |
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| width | 16 km | |
| Tributaries | Skelton Glacier | |
The Skelton Inlet is an ice-covered bay at the Hillary Coast in the south of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It represents the place where the Skelton Glacier joins the western flank of the Ross Ice Shelf . At its entrance between Cape Timberlake and Fishtail Point , it is 16 km wide.
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904), led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered the bay and named it after Reginald Skelton (1872–1965), chief engineer of the expedition.
Web links
- Skelton Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skelton Inlet on geographic.org (English)