Dogs Leg Fjord is an inlet long in an east-west direction and wide, lying south of
German Peninsula, directly east of
Ridge Island and opening on
Bourgeois Fjord, along the
Fallières Coast on the west side of
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
. It was discovered by the
British Graham Land Expedition, 1934–37, under
John Rymill
John Riddoch Rymill (13 March 1905 – 7 September 1968) was an Australian polar explorer, who had the rare second clasp added to his Polar Medal.
Early life
Rymill was born at Penola, South Australia, the second son of Robert Rymill (7 J ...
, and so named because of its shape.
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Map
* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map
In modern mapping, a topographic map or topographic sheet is a type of map characterized by large- scale detail and quantitative representation of relief features, usually using contour lines (connecting points of equal elevation), but histori ...
. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 67 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys
The Ordnance Survey International or Ordnance Survey Overseas Directorate its predecessors built an archive of air photography, map and survey records for the United Kingdom from 1946 to 1999. The Ordnance Survey International Collection (formerly ...
, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
References
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Inlets of Graham Land
Fallières Coast
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