Spillane Fjord is a fjord in front of

Crane Glacier Crane Glacier (), is a narrow glacier which flows in an east-northeasterly direction along the northwest side of Aristotle Mountains to enter Spillane Fjord south of Devetaki Peak, on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Sir Hubert Wil ...

in the western part of

Exasperation Inlet 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. It was charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who so named it because the ...

Oscar II Coast Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...

in Graham Land, entered between

Caution Point Caution Point () is a headland northeast of Mount Birks, on the north side of the entrance to Spillane Fjord, which marks the east end of Austa Ridge that forms the north wall of Crane Glacier, on the east coast of Graham Land. It was photograp ...

and

Delusion Point Delusion Point is a point on the south side of the entrance to Spillane Fjord and the northeast side of the entrance to Sexaginta Prista Bay, which marks the east end of Arkovna Ridge that forms the south wall of Crane Glacier, on the east coast o ...

. The feature is 2 miles wide, 10 miles long and averages 1000 m deep. Its greatest depth is 1250 m at the far west end of the fjord. The fjord was created by the catastrophic retreat of Crane Glacier, which was itself caused by the breakup of the north portion of the

Larsen Ice Shelf The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to Smith Peninsula. It is named after Captain Carl Anton Larsen, the master of the No ...

in March, 2002. The fjord's creation was documented by satellite images and the feature was first visited by surface ship in April 2006 during the

U.S. Antarctic Program The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...

NBP06-03 cruise, when the extent, depth and dimension were determined by swath bathymetry. Named by

US-ACAN The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

in 2007 after Joshua Spillane who served the USAP as a marine technician aboard L.M. Gould and N.B. Palmer. He lost his life in Drake Passage, April 16, 2006, while L.M. Gould was transiting from Palmer Station to Punta Arenas, Chile.

Location

Spillane Fjord is located at . Antarctic Digital Database mapping in 2012.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Spillane Fjord.

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