Desolate inlet
| Desolate inlet | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 20 '44 " S , 60 ° 50' 33" W | |
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| width | 3 to 8 km | |
The Wüst Inlet is an icy bay between 3 and 8 km wide on the Black Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located on the east side of the Merz Peninsula between Cape Christmas and Old Mans Head .
Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered and photographed them from the air in December 1940. Further aerial photographs were taken in 1947 during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948), which also carried out the geodetic survey on site in collaboration with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The FIDS named the bay after the German oceanographer Georg Wüst (1890–1977).
Web links
- Wüst Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wüst Inlet on geographic.org (English)