COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

between Cape Brooks and Lamb Point, Lassiter Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940, and by RARE in 1947; surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947; in association with the names of Antarctic meteorologists grouped in this area, named after Gordon Arthur Howkins (b.1919), Operation "Tabarin" meteorologist, "Deception Island", 1943-45; Senior and Chief Meteorological Officer, Stanley, Falkland Islands, 1946-56; Assistant Director, Meteorological Office, Ministry of Defence, 1973-79 (APC, 1955, p.12; DOS 610 sheet W 73 60, 1957; USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969). Hawkins [sic] Inlet (USHO chart 6647, 1957). Bukhta Khaukins (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The inlet was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67. Ensenada Howkins (Chile. IGM map 27, 1966).

Ice-filled inlet which recedes SW 6 mi between Cape Brooks and Lamb Point, along the E coast of Palmer Land. Discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by the USAS. During 1947 it was photographed from the air by the RARE under Ronne, who in conjunction with the FIDS charted it from the ground. Named by the FIDS for G. Howkins, meteorologist with the FIDS base at Deception Island in 1944-45.