McCarthy Inlet (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
McCarthy 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:
E coast of Berkner Island, Filchner Ice Shelf, was seen from the air and roughly mapped from the ground in c. 78°50'S 46°00'W by US IGY personnel from "Ellsworth Station", 1957-58; named McCarty [sic] Inlet after Lieut. Cdr Charles J. McCarthy, USNR, Commanding Officer, USN Squadron VX-6 unit and Executive Officer of the winter party, "Ellsworth Station", ODF, 1957-58 (USBGN, 1960, p.6; AGS map, 1962b). Mc Carty [sic] Inlet (USAF chart GNC 26, 1961). McCarthy Inlet (USBGN, 1965, p.101; AGS map, 1970; [in 78°45'S 46°20'W] APC, 1980, p.4; [co-ordinates corrected] APC, 1986, p.3). Ledyanoy Zaliv Mak-Karti (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). The inlet was further delineated from USLANDSAT imagery of 1973 (BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981).
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