Mendelssohn Inlet

Mendelssohn Inlet (

71°17′S 72°52′W / 71.283°S 72.867°W / -71.283; -72.867Coordinates: 71°17′S 72°52′W / 71.283°S 72.867°W / -71.283; -72.867) is an ice-filled inlet, 25 nautical miles (46 km) long and 9 nautical miles (17 km) wide, situated between Derocher Peninsula and Eroica Peninsula on the north side of Beethoven Peninsula, in the southwest part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The inlet was first sighted from the air and roughly mapped by the United States Antarctic Service, 1939–41, and was resighted and photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48. It was remapped from the RARE photos by of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after German composer Felix Mendelssohn.^[1]

See also[]

• Haydn Inlet
• Verdi Inlet
• Weber Inlet

Further reading[]

• Defense Mapping Agency 1992, Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica, P 379
• Ted A. Scambos, Christina Hulbe, Mark Fahnestock, Jennifer Bohlander, The link between climate warming and break-up of ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula, Journal of Glaciology, Volume 46, Issue 154, 2000, pp. 516–530, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3189/172756500781833043

External links[]

• Mendelssohn Inlet on USGS website
• Mendelssohn Inlet on SCAR website

References[]

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