Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Nantucket, Ensenada (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Nantucket, Ensenada (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Inlet (3)
This name originates from Chile. It is part of the Chile Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Fue descubierta por los miembros de la Expedición del Servicio Antártico de los EE.UU., 1939-1941, en el vuelo desde la Base Este, el 30 de diciembre de 1940 y denominada así por la isla Nantucket de Massachusetts, puerto bandera de los primeros balleneros de la mitad del siglo XIX. Se abre entre las penínsulas Smith y Bowman en la costa SE de la península Tierra de O'Higgins.
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