Weber Inlet
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 Topographic map of the Beethoven Peninsula (1: 250,000) with Weber Inlet (below) |
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| Waters | Bellingshausen lake | |
| Land mass | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 55 ′ 1 ″ S , 73 ° 29 ′ 26 ″ W | |
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The Weber Inlet is an ice-covered bay on the south coast of the Beethoven Peninsula on the West Antarctic Alexander Island . It is located southwest of the Bennett Dome and forms the northwest arm of the Brook Ice Shelf .
The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped the bay in 1960 using aerial photographs taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1961 after the German composer Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826).
Web links
- Weber Inlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Weber Inlet on geographic.org (English)