COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

between Cape Christmas and Old Mans Head, Black Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940; further photographed from the air by RARE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947; in association with the names of Antarctic oceanographers grouped in this area, named after George Adolf Otto Wüst (1890-1977), German oceanographer and member of the German Atlantic Expedition, 1925-27 (A. Merz, Merz Peninsula, q.v.); Professor of Oceanography and Maritime Meteorology, and Director, Institut für Meereskunde, Kiel University, 1946-64 (APC, 1955, p.22; USHO chart 6639, 1955; DCS 601 sheet 72 60, 1956; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Bukhta Vyust (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Ensenada Wüst (Chile. IGM map 20, 1966). The inlet was photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and mapped from air photographs by USGS.

Ice-filled inlet, from 2 to 5 mi wide, indenting the E side of Merz Peninsula between Cape Christmas and Old Mans Head, along the E coast of Palmer Land. The inlet was photographed from the air in 1940 by members of the USAS. During 1947 the inlet was photographed from the air by members of the RARE, who in conjunction with the FIDS charted it from the ground. Named by the FIDS for Prof. Georg Wust, German oceanographer.