Trail inlet
| Trail inlet | ||
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| Waters | Larsen Ice Shelf | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 5 ′ S , 65 ° 22 ′ W | |
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| length | approx. 24 km | |
| Tributaries | Bill's Gulch , Daspit Glacier | |
The Trail Inlet is about 24 km long and icy bay on the Bowman Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between the three-slice Nunatak and Cape Freeman .
The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins discovered it during an overflight on December 20, 1928. The width of Grahamland is only 32 km between the head of this bay and that of the Neny Fjord on the Fallières coast . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1953 so because the bay 1939-1941 a natural path ( English trail ) for the carriage tours of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition showed (1939-1941) at the crossing of Graham country from coast to coast.
Web links
- Trail Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Trail Inlet on geographic.org (English)