Shackleton Inlet
The Shackleton Inlet is a reentrant, about 16 km wide, between Cape Wilson and Cape Lyttelton. It is occupied by the terminus of the Nimrod Glacier descending at a low gradient from the bordering highlands to the Ross Ice Shelf.Shackleton Inlet
- Type: Bay
- Description: inlet in Antarctica
- Categories: inlet and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-82.31667° or 82° 19′ south
Longitude
164° east
Named after
Sir Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton
Open location code
2V96M2M2+82
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Shackleton Inlet” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “沙克爾頓灣”
- French: “Crique de Shackleton”
- German: “Shackleton Inlet”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ שקלטון”
- Hebrew: “מפרצון שקלטון”
- Italian: “Insenatura di Shackleton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shackletonfjorden”
- Swedish: “Shackleton Inlet”
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