Adie Inlet () is an ice-filled

inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In marine geogra ...

, long in a northwest–southeast direction, lying east of

Churchill Peninsula Churchill Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula between Cabinet Inlet and Adie Inlet, extending some in a southeasterly direction from the east coast of Graham Land. The peninsula ends in Cape Alexander separating Oscar II Coast to the north ...

along the east coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...

. Charted by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...

(FIDS) and photographed from the air by the

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...

(RARE) during 1947. Named by the FIDS for

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, South African geologist with FIDS, 1947–49.

* Tony Soper, '
A guide to the wildlife
'' * I. L. MILLAR, R. J. PANKHURST & C. M. FANNING, '
Basement chronology of the Antarctic Peninsula: recurrent magmatism and anatexis in the Palaeozoic Gondwana Margin
'', Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 159, 2002, pp. 145–157 * Daniel McGrath, Konrad Steffen, Paul R. Holland, Ted Scambos, Harihar Rajaram, Waleed Abdalati, Eric Rignot, '
The structure and effect of suture zones in the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica
'', 12 February 2014, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JF002935 * R. L. Oliver, P. R. James, J. B. Jago, editors '
Antarctic Earth Science
'', P 370 * International Symposium on Antarctic Earth, '
Geological Evolution of Antarctica
'', P 372

References

Inlets of Graham Land Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-geo-stub

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