Cacapon Inlet

Cacapon Inlet (66°10′S 101°0′E / 66.167°S 101.000°E / -66.167; 101.000Coordinates: 66°10′S 101°0′E / 66.167°S 101.000°E / -66.167; 101.000) is an inlet about 2 nautical miles (4 km) wide and 9 nautical miles (17 km) long, lying between Thomas Island and Fuller Island in the Highjump Archipelago. The inlet is bounded on the west by Edisto Ice Tongue and on the east by the coast of Antarctica. It was mapped from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in February 1947, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after USS Cacapon, a tanker in the Western Task Group of Operation Highjump, 1946–47.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Cacapon Inlet". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-10-13.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Cacapon Inlet" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/21/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.