Tucker Inlet () is an Antarctic ice-filled inlet indenting the coast of
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. I ...
between
Capes Wheatstone and Daniell. It was discovered in February 1841 by
Sir James Clark Ross who named this feature for
Charles T. Tucker, master of the
Erebus
In Greek mythology, Erebus (; grc, Ἔρεβος, Érebos, "deep darkness, shadow".), or Erebos, is the personification of darkness and one of the primordial deities. Hesiod's ''Theogony'' identifies him as one of the first five beings in exis ...
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Inlets of Antarctica
Landforms of Victoria Land
Borchgrevink Coast
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