Exasperation Inlet is a large ice-filled inlet, wide at its entrance between
Foyn Point and
Cape Disappointment, on 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 ...
. It was charted in 1947 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
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, who so named it because the disturbed nature of the ice in the vicinity caused considerable difficulty to sledging parties.
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References
Further reading
* Defense Mapping Agency 1992,
Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica
', P 276
External links
Exasperation Inlet
on USGS
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website
Exasperation Inlet
on SCAR
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website
Exasperation Inlet
on marineregions.org
Inlets of Graham Land
Oscar II Coast
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