Name details

New Bedford Inlet

New Bedford Inlet (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

New Bedford Inlet  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110341

Feature type: Inlet

Origin

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:

Narrative

between Cape Kidson and Cape Brooks, Lassiter Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December, 1940 (USHO, 1943, upper photograph p.277); roughly mapped from air photographs in c. 73°55'S 60°00'W, and called Douglas Inlet (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942); later named New Bedford Inlet after New Bedford, Mass., the centre of the New England whaling industry in the middle of the nineteenth-century ([in c. 73°58'S 59°30'W] USAAF chart [LR-74], 1943; [in 73°22'S 61°15'W] Mason, 1950a, map facing p.151; BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; DOS 601 sheet W 73 60, 1957; APC, 1955, p.16; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1977, p.24); surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947, when the inlet was found to lie c.65km NW of its previously reported position, the difference being due to a navigational error during the 1940 USAS flight. Ensenada Nueva Bedford (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.556). Estero New Bedford (Chile. DNH chart [no number], 1947). Ensenada Presidente Barros Luco, so called after Ramón Barros Luco (1835-1919), President of Chile, 1910-15 (Orrego Vicuña, 1948, p.202 and end map). Seno Nueva Bedford (Argentina. MM chart N-"P"-l, 1952). Ensenada Bedford (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.329). Bukhta N'yu-Bedford (Baranov and others, 1954, p.283). Ensenada New Bedford (Argentina. MM, 1958b, p.192; Pierrou, 1970, p.548; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.211). Zaliv N'yu-Bedford (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The inlet was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-66, and mapped from air photographs by USGS. Ledyanoy Zaliv N'yu-Bedford (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). Seno New Bedford, Estrecho New Bedford, as rejected forms (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.211).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 26' 00.0" S
-73.43333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
61° 04' 00.0" W
-61.06667°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
28-Jan-1953

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