Smith Inlet (Victoria Land)
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Smith Inlet is a bay
, 4 miles (6 km) wide, partially filled with the ice tongue of Barnett Glacier
. It is located between Cape Moore
and Cape Oakeley
along the coast of northern Victoria Land
, and was discovered by Captain James C. Ross, 1841, who named it for Alexander J. Smith, mate on the Erebus
.
Bay
A bay is an area of water mostly surrounded by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. Bays also exist as an inlet in a lake or pond. A large bay may be called a gulf, a sea, a sound, or a bight...
, 4 miles (6 km) wide, partially filled with the ice tongue of Barnett Glacier
Barnett Glacier
Barnett Glacier is a large glacier in the Anare Mountains that flows east along the south side of Tapsell Foreland into Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63, and named by the Advisory...
. It is located between Cape Moore
Cape Moore
Cape Moore is a cape at the east end of Tapsell Foreland which forms the north side of the entrance to Smith Inlet, on the north coast of Victoria Land. Discovered by Captain James C. Ross, 1841, who named it for Thomas E.L. Moore, mate on the Terror....
and Cape Oakeley
Cape Oakeley
Cape Oakeley is a bold headland on the northeast side of Quam Heights. It forms the south side of the entrance of Smith Inlet in northern Victoria Land. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Ross, Royal Navy, who named it for Henry Oakeley, mate on the Erebus....
along the coast of northern Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
, and was discovered by Captain James C. Ross, 1841, who named it for Alexander J. Smith, mate on the Erebus
HMS Erebus (1826)
HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel designed by Sir Henry Peake and constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales in 1826. The vessel was named after the dark region in Hades of Greek mythology called Erebus...
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