Mobiloil Inlet
inlet on the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
Mobiloil Inlet (68°35′S 64°45′W) is an ice-filled inlet, nurtured by several northeast and east flowing glaciers, lying between the Rock Pile Peaks and Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Location
Mobiloil Inlet is near the east end of the Bowman Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, opening onto the Weddell Sea to the north.
Bowman Inlet and the Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula are to the east.
Bermel Peninsula and the Solberg Inlet is to the north.
The Morgan Upland is to the southwest, the Godfrey Upland is to the west and the Hadley Upland is to the northwest.
The entrance to the inlet is between the Rock Pile Point to the north and Yates Spur to the south.
The west of the inlet is filled by the Mercator Ice Piedmont and the Traffic Circle.
Glaciers feeding the piedmont include, clockwise from the south, Weyerhaeuser Glacier, which is fed by Hermes Glacier from the east and by Sumner Glacier from the west, Cole Glacier, and Lammers Glacier.
Other features include Werner Peak, Norwood Scarp, Mount Solus, Eisner Peak and Mount Blunt.
Discovery and name
Mobiloil Inlet was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in a flight on 20 December 1928, and named by him after a product of the Vacuum Oil Company of Australia.
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