Bertius Inlet (, ‘Zaliv Bertius’ \'za-liv 'ber-tiy\) is the 8.3 km wide ice-filled inlet indenting for 9 km

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on the

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. It is entered south of Cape Walcott and north of Cape Hinks, and has its head fed by

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. The feature is named after the

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geographer and cartographer

Petrus Bertius Petrus Bertius (also Peter Bertius; Pieter de Bert) (14 November 1565 – 13 October 1629) was a Flemish people, Flemish philosopher, theologian, historian, geographer and cartographer. Bertius published much in mathematics, and historical and the ...

(Pieter de Bert, 1565–1629) who published an early separate map of

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in 1616.

Location

Bertius Inlet is centred at . British mapping in 1963 and 1976.

Maps

*British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 69 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1963. *British Antarctic Territory: Palmer Land. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. BAS 250 Series, Sheet SR 19–20. London, 1976.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Bertius Inlet.

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.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Bertius Inlet.
Copernix satellite image Inlets of Graham Land Wilkins Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{PalmerLand-geo-stub