COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

between Cape Northrop and Tent Nunatak, Bowman Coast, into which flow Flint Glacier, Demorest Glacier, Matthes Glacier and Chamberlin Glacier, was seen from the air, 20 December 1928, by Wilkins who applied the name Whirlwind Glaciers to the four glaciers because their disposition resembled the arrangement of the radial cylinders of the Wright Whirlwind engine, designed by Col. Charles L. Laurence for the Lockheed Vega monoplane used on the flight ([in c.67°50'S 64°30'W] Wilkins, 1929, p.336, map facing p.374 and p.376; BA chart 3175, 7.vii.1933; 1.iii.1940; USHO, 1943, p.270; USBGN, 1956, p.323). Hvirvelvindebreene [translation of English name] (Aagaard, 1930, end map). Whirlwind Gletscher (Germany. OK chart 1061, 1938). The glaciers were photographed from the air by USAS in 1940, but were confused with those flowing into the head of Mobiloil Inlet (Mercator Ice Piedmont, q.v.); later the name Whirlwind Glacier was wrongly applied to a glacier flowing NE into the head of Trail Inlet (USHO chart 5411, 1946). Following surveys by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1946-47, and from "Hope Bay" in December 1947, the name Whirlwind was transferred to the inlet. Whirlwind Inlet (BA chart 3570, 27. vi.1952; APC, 1955, p.22; DCS 601 sheet 6764, 1955). Caleta Remolino [translation of English name] (Argentina. MM chart 121, 1954; Pierrou, 1970, p.620). Whirlwind-Gletschern (Kosack, 1955a, p.221). Caleta Whirlwind (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.9). Glaciar Whirlwind, referring to a glacier on the S side of Trail Inlet (Argentina. IAA map, [1959b]). Bahía Whirlwind (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.228). Ensenada Whirlwind (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.227; IHA, 1974, p.301). Zaliv Uerluind (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).

Ice-filled inlet that recedes inland for 7 mi and is 12 mi wide at its entrance between Cape Northrop and Tent Nunatak, along the E coast of Graham Land. Sir Hubert Wilkins discovered the inlet on his flight of Dec. 20, 1928. Wilkins reported four large glaciers flowing into the inlet, which he named Whirlwind Glaciers because their relative position was suggestive of the radial cylinders of his Wright Whirlwind engine. The inlet was photographed from the air by the USAS in 1940 and charted by the FIDS in 1947.

Descubierta desde el aire en diciembre del año 1928 por Sir Hubert Wilkins, quien avistó cuatro grandes glaciares convergiendo hacia la ensenada, del patrullero "Lientur" de la Armada de Chile, quien participó en la Expedición Antártica Chilena del año 1955-1956. Bahía abierta al N, que se ubica al W del cabo Fitz-Roy, en la costa NE de la isla Joinville, mar de Weddell.