Name details

Wright Inlet

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 112005

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 Wheeler and Cape Little, Lassiter Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940, but owing to an error in navigation on this flight wrongly located in c.74°40'S 60°30'W (USHO, 1943, second photograph p.276 and p.277); called Tricorn Bay in association with Mount Tricorn (q.v.) (USHO, 1943, third photograph p.275); further photographed from the air by RARE, 21 November 1947, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947; found to lie c.90km NW of its reported position (Ronne, 1948b, p.374). Mount Tricorn Inlet (AGS map, 1948).Tricorn Inlet (Ronne, 1949, p.198). The inlet was renamed Wright Inlet after John Kirkland Wright (1891-1969), Director, AGS, 1938-49 (Ronne, 1949, map p.249 and end map; BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; [in 73°57'S 61°26'W] APC, 1955, p.22; DOS 601 sheet W 7360, 1957; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1977, p.36; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). Tricorn-Fjorden, Wright-Fjorden (Rønne, 1950b, p.133, 145). Seno Wright (Argentina. MM chart N-"P"-1, 1952). Ensenada Wright (Argentina. MM chart 121, 1957; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.304). Bukhta Rayt (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The inlet was rephotographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS. Ledyanoy Bukhta Rayt (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 59' 00.0" S
-73.98333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
61° 20' 00.0" W
-61.33333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
28-Jan-1953

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