Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Nantucket Inlet (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Nantucket 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 Smith Peninsula and Bowman Peninsula, Lassiter Coast, was seen from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940, and called Fran [sic] Inlet, probably in error after the Norwegian polar ship Fram (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942); later named Nantucket Inlet after Nantucket Island, Mass., a home port of early New England whalers (USHO, 1943, p.277; chart 2562, 1943; [in c. 75°15'S] USBGN, 1947, p.204; [in 74°35'S 61°48'W] Mason, 1950a, map facing p.151; BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.15; DCS 601 sheet W 74 60, 1957; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1977, p.24; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1981). Innes-Taylor Inlet, after Capt. Charles Alan Keith Innes-Taylor (1900-83), who was in charge of dogs on the Byrd Antarctic expeditions, 1928-30 and 1933-35 (Ronne, 1945, map p.14). Ensenada Nantucket (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.539; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.207). The inlet was
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