Hercules Inlet (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hercules 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:
inlet of Ronne Ice Shelf on S side of Skytrain Ice Rise, with its NW extremity lying outside BAT, was photographed from the air by USN in 1961, 1962 and 1964, and mapped from air photographs by USGS in 1966; named after the US LC-130 Hercules turbo-prop aircraft, made by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and used extensively on USARP for load carrying and photographic flights (USGS sheet SU 16-20/2, 1967; APC, 1974, p.4; USGS satellite image map Ellsworth Mountains, 1976; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981).
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