Vaughan Inlet

Vaughan Inlet
Waters	Weddell Sea
Land mass	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Geographical location	65 ° 3 ′ S , 61 ° 34 ′ W Coordinates: 65 ° 3 ′ S , 61 ° 34 ′ W
width	12 km
depth	15 km
Tributaries	Breniza Glacier , Mussina Glacier

The Vaughan Inlet is a 15km long and 12 km wide bay at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Whiteside Hill and Shiver Point .

Aerial photos were taken on December 20, 1928 during the flight of the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins over this area. Wilkins named the frozen water area he discovered as Hektoria Fjords after the whaling ship Hektoria , which was used to transport his expedition to Deception Island . Today's open bay was created by the retreat of the Hektoria , Green and Evans glaciers and the break-up of the Larsen Ice Shelf in this region in March 2002. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the bay in 2008 after the glaciologist David G. Vaughan of Swansea University , who was a senior scientist at the British Antarctic Survey from 1986 to 2008 , who was in charge of research into the impact of climate change on the Antarctic ice sheet .

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