Stravinsky Inlet
| Stravinsky Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Bach Inlet | |
| Land mass | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 19 ′ 59 ″ S , 71 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Glasunov Glacier | |
The Stravinsky Inlet is an ice-covered bay in the south of the West Antarctic Alexander Island . As a side bay of Bach Inlet , it lies between the Shostakovich and Monteverdi peninsula .
The British Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapped them in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey using satellite images provided by NASA . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on December 20, 1974 after the Russian-French-American composer Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971).
Web links
- Stravinsky Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stravinsky Inlet on geographic.org (English)