Wüst Inlet (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Wüst Inlet (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Inlet
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
between Cape Christmas and Old Mans Head, Black Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940; further photographed from the air by RARE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947; in association with the names of Antarctic oceanographers grouped in this area, named after George Adolf Otto Wüst (1890-1977), German oceanographer and member of the German Atlantic Expedition, 1925-27 (A. Merz, Merz Peninsula, q.v.); Professor of Oceanography and Maritime Meteorology, and Director, Institut für Meereskunde, Kiel University, 1946-64 (APC, 1955, p.22; USHO chart 6639, 1955; DCS 601 sheet 72 60, 1956; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Bukhta Vyust (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Ensenada Wüst (Chile. IGM map 20, 1966). The inlet was photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and mapped from air photographs by USGS.
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