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.

* 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

* Inlets of Graham Land Foyn Coast {{FoynCoast-geo-stub

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