Bertius Inlet ( bg, text=залив Бертий, italic=no, ‘Zaliv Bertius’ \'za-liv 'ber-tiy\) is the 8.3 km wide ice-filled inlet indenting for 9 km

Wilkins Coast Wilkins Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Agassiz and Cape Boggs. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Sir Hubert Wilkins, who in a pioneer Antarctic exploratory fli ...

on the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

. It is entered south of Cape Walcott and north of Cape Hinks, and has its head fed by

Lurabee Glacier Lurabee Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing northeast between the Scripps Heights and Finley Heights to the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. This glacier was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins on December 20, 1928, on his pioneer Antarctic f ...

. The feature is named after the

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geographer and cartographer

Petrus Bertius Petrus Bertius (also Peter Bertius; Pieter de Bert) (14 November 1565 – 13 October 1629) was a Flemish philosopher, theologian, historian, geographer and cartographer. Bertius published much in mathematics, and historical and theological works, b ...

(Pieter de Bert, 1565–1629) who published an early separate map of

Terra Australis Incognita (Latin: '"Southern Land'") was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Its existence was not based on any survey or direct observation, but rather on the idea that ...

in 1616.

Location

Bertius Inlet is centred at . British mapping in 1963 and 1976.

Maps

*British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 69 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1963. *British Antarctic Territory: Palmer Land. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. BAS 250 Series, Sheet SR 19–20. London, 1976.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Bertius Inlet.

SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a na ...

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...

.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Bertius Inlet.
Copernix satellite image Inlets of Graham Land Wilkins Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{PalmerLand-geo-stub