Whirlwind Inlet (67°30′S 65°25′W / 67.500°S 65.417°W) is an ice-filled inlet that recedes inland for 7 nautical miles (13 km) and is 12 nautical miles (22 km) wide at its entrance between Cape Northrop and Tent Nunatak, along the east coast of Graham Land. Sir Hubert Wilkins discovered the inlet on his flight of December 20, 1928. Wilkins reported four large glaciers flowing into the inlet, which he named Whirlwind Glaciers because their relative position was suggestive of the radial cylinders of his Wright Whirlwind engine. The inlet was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) in 1940 and charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947.
Further reading edit
- Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic/Topographic Center, Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica, P 274
- Ian Renfrew, Polar storms and polar jets: Mesoscale weather systems in the Arctic & Antarctic
- Andy Elvidge, Ian Renfrew, What causes foehn warming?
- Suzanne L. Bevan, Adrian Luckman, Bryn Hubbard, Bernd Kulessa, David Ashmore, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Martin O’Leary, Adam Booth, Heidi Sevestre, and Daniel McGrath, Centuries of intense surface melt on Larsen C Ice Shelf, The Cryosphere, 11, 2743–2753, 2017 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2743-2017
External links edit
- Whirlwind Inlet on USGS website
- Whirlwind Inlet on SCAR website
- Video on YouTube
References edit
This article incorporates public domain material from "Whirlwind Inlet". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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