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)
Weber Inlet (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Weber 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:
on W side of Bach Ice Shelf and SE side of Beethoven Peninsula, was photographed from the air by RARE in December 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; in association with the names of other composers in this area, named after Carl Maria Friedrich Ernest von Weber (1786-1826), German composer ([in 71°50'S 72°55'W] APC, 1961, p.4: USHO chart V30-SP6, 1962; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; [co-ordinates corrected from US LANDSAT imagery of January 1973] BAS 250P sheet SR 17-18/15, 16, 1-DOS 1974; APC, 1977, p.35).
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