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)
Exasperation Inlet (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Exasperation 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:
between Foyn Point and Cape Disappointment (q.v.), Oscar II Coast, was roughly surveyed by SwAE in October 1902; called Sandefiordsbukten, as the E entrance of Wilkins' supposed Crane Channel (Crane Glacier, q.v.) (Aagaard, 1930, end map); resurveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in 1947 and 1949, and so named, in association with the cape, because the disturbed nature of the ice shelf in the area caused difficulties for sledge parties (BA chart 3570, 27.vi.1952; APC, 1955, p.9; BA chart 3570, 27.ix.1957). Ensenada Desesperación [=desperation inlet] (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.325). Bahía Exasperación (Argentina. MM chart 121, 1954). Ensenada Exasperación (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.352; Chile. IHA, 1974, p120). The inlet was further surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in 1961. Zaliv Egzaspereyshen (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Ledyanoy Zaliv Egsaspereyshen (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24). Seno Exasperación, as rejected form (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.120).
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