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.- Bay
- …is named after Sir Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton
- Description: inlet in Antarctica
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-82.31667° or 82° 19′ south
Longitude
164° east
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.
沙克爾頓灣Chinese
מפרץ שקלטוןHebrew
מפרצון שקלטוןHebrew
Insenatura di ShackletonItalian
ShackletonfjordenNorwegian Nynorsk
Shackleton InletSwedish
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