Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Mendelssohn Inlet (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mendelssohn 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 Beethoven Peninsula and Eroica Peninsula, SW Alexander Island, following map compilation by FIDS in 1959 from air photographs taken by RARE in 1947, was named after Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47), German composer, in association with the names of other composers in this area ([in 71°15'S 73°00'W] APC, 1961, p.3; USHO chart V30-SP6, 1962; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; Searle, 1963, end map; BAS 250P sheet SR 17-18/15, 16, 1-DOS 1974; [co-ordinates corrected from US LANDSAT imagery of January 1973] APC, 1977, p.22). Ledyanoy Bukhta Mendel'sona (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). Mendelsohn [sic] Inlet (BA, 1974, p.210).
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