New Bedford Inlet
Body of water in Palmer Land, Antarctica
New Bedford Inlet (73°22′S 61°15′W) is a large pouch-shaped, ice-filled embayment between Cape Kidson and Cape Brooks, along the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica.
Location
New Bedford Inlet is on the Lassiter Coast of southern Palmer Land, opening onto the Weddell Sea to the east.
It is north of Piggott Peninsula and Howkins Inlet and south of Mossman Inlet.
The Warner Mountains are to the southwest and the Dana Mountains to the northwest.
Several glaciers drain into the inlet.
Clockwise from the south they include Wells Glacier, Bryan Glacier, Douglas Glacier, Meinardus Glacier with its left tributary Haines Glacier, and Mosby Glacier with its left tributary Fenton Glacier.
The mouth of the inlet lies between Cape Brooks to the south and Cape Kidson to the north. Simpson Head is just west of Cape Kidson.
Discovery and name
New Bedford Inlet was discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), and named after New Bedford, Massachusetts, the centre of the New England whaling industry in the middle of the 19th century.
Glaciers
Wells Glacier
73°32′S 61°11′W.
A glacier 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) west of Cape Brooks, flowing north into New Bedford Inlet.
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