Carlson Inlet (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Carlson 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:
W side of Ronne Ice Shelf, between Fowler Peninsula and Fletcher Peninsula, with its upper reaches lying outside BAT, was seen from the air on a C-130 aircraft flight from McMurdo Sound to "Eights Station" across Ellsworth Mountains, 14-15 December 1961; mapped by USGS from US LANDSAT imagery of February 1974 and traversed by BAS on a radio echo-sounding flight from "Siple Station", Ellsworth Land, in January 1975; named after Lieut. (later Cdr) Ronald F. Carlson, USN, of Antarctic Development Squadron 6, commanding the aircraft on the 1961 flight (USGS satellite image map, Ellsworth Mountains, 1976; Swithinbank and others, 1976, p.296; Alberts, 1977, p.40; APC, 1980, p.3; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981).
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