Name details

Schubert Inlet

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 111080

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

filled with ice shelf off E side of Wilkins Sound, between Handel Ice Piedmont and Lewis Snowfield, W Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by RARE in 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; in association with the names of composers in this area, named after Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828), Austrian composer ([in 70°52'S 70°55'W extending NW-SE] APC, 1961, p.3; USHO chart V30-SP6, 1962; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; Searle, 1963, end map; [further delineated as extending W-E and co-ordinates corrected from US LANDSAT imagery of February 1979] BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/9, 2-DOS 1980).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
70° 56' 00.0" S
-70.93333°
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Longitude:
70° 18' 00.0" W
-70.30000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
2-Mar-1961

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