Cabinet Inlet () is an icy
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, and some wide at its entrance between
Cape Alexander and
Cape Robinson, 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 an ...
,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. It was named 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 o ...
(FIDS) and
aerially photographed by the
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in December 1947. It is named for the
British War Cabinet
A war cabinet is a committee formed by a government in a time of war to efficiently and effectively conduct that war. It is usually a subset of the full executive cabinet of ministers, although it is quite common for a war cabinet to have senio ...
which authorized the FIDS in 1943.
Further reading
* Suzanne L. Bevan, Adrian Luckman, Bryn Hubbard, Bernd Kulessa, David Ashmore, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Martin O’Leary, Adam Booth, Heidi Sevestre, and Daniel McGrath, '
Intense Winter Surface Melt on an Antarctic Ice Shelf'', Geophysical Research Letters, 45. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077899
* Suzanne L. Bevan, Adrian Luckman, Bryn Hubbard, Bernd Kulessa, David Ashmore, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Martin O’Leary, Adam Booth, Heidi Sevestre, and Daniel McGrath, '
Centuries of intense surface melt on Larsen C Ice Shelf'', The Cryosphere, 11, 2743–2753, 2017 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2743-2017
References
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Inlets of Graham Land
Foyn Coast
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