Name details

Turner Inlet

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

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

If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au

Id 140177

Feature type: Inlet

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

Inlet about 15 km long and 5 km wide at the mouth, between Simpson Head and Cape Kidson. A tributary of New Bedford Inlet. Named for Dr John Turner (b. 1953), meteorologist at the British Antarctic Survey from 1986. Dr Turner has had a long involvement with the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) including membership of the Antarctic Climate 2100 (AntClim21) Steering Committee and Chair of the Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment Advisory Group. President of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) International Commission on Polar Meteorology from 1995 to 2003, and later President of IAMAS. Awarded the International Journal of Climatology Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society and the SCAR Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research (2010). The name continues an established naming theme of Antarctic meteorologists in this area.

Named For

Named for Dr John Turner (b. 1953), meteorologist at the British Antarctic Survey from 1986. Dr Turner has had a long involvement with the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) including membership of the Antarctic Climate 2100 (AntClim21) Steering Committee and Chair of the Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment Advisory Group. President of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) International Commission on Polar Meteorology from 1995 to 2003, and later President of IAMAS. Awarded the International Journal of Climatology Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society and the SCAR Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research (2010).

Location

Latitude:
73° 20' 00.0" S
-73.33333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
60° 52' 45.0" W
-60.87917°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Landsat-8 image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
Source Identifier:
https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
Source Scale:
1:30 m resolution
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
UK APC
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
13-Feb-2020

Display Scales

Note These display scales were chosen for use by Australia, with an emphasis on East Antarctica.
          For example, selecting 'Aus_display_scale_20M' would only return names that would appear on a 1:20 million scale map.

Aus_display_scale_20M: No      Aus_display_scale_10M: No     
Aus_display_scale_5M: No      Aus_display_scale_2M: No     
Aus_display_scale_1M: No      Aus_display_scale_500k: No     
Aus_display_scale_250k: No      Aus_display_scale_100k: No     
Aus_display_scale_50k: No      Aus_display_scale_25k: No     
Aus_display_scale_10k: No      Aus_display_scale_5k: No     
Aus_display_scale_1k: No     


Related information

Biodiversity
View fauna, flora or both within 1.0 degree of this location

Place names
View British or international place names within 1.0 degree of this location.