Spilhaus Inlet (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Spilhaus 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:
small inlet of Filchner Ice Shelf on SE side of Berkner Island. Roughly mapped by US IGY party from "Ellsworth Station", 1957, and called Skidmore Bay after Donald K. Skidmore, ionosphericist at the station at that time (Thiel et al, 1958, Fig.9), but this name was later transferred to Skidmore Cliff, Forrestal Range. Landsat and NOAA imagery, 1973-79. Named after Dr Athelstan F. Spilhaus (b. 1911), meterologist and oceanographer, member of US National Committee for the IGY, 1957-58, and of the National Science Board, 1966-72.
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