Casey Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet at the terminus of Casey Glacier, between Miller Point and Cape Walcott, on the east coast of

Palmer Land Palmer Land () is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic N ...

, Antarctica.

Location

Casey Inlet is on the

Wilkins Coast Wilkins Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Agassiz and Cape Boggs. Name Wilkins Coast was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Sir Hubert Wilkins, who in a pion ...

on the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

, beside the

Weddell Sea The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha C ...

to the east. It is north of

Scripps Heights Scripps Heights () are rugged heights which are largely ice-covered, surmounting the peninsula between Casey Glacier and Lurabee Glacier on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. Deeply scarred by glaciers, the heights terminate on the east ...

and

Stefansson Strait Stefansson Strait () is an ice-filled strait long and wide, between the east coast of Palmer Land and Hearst Island, Antarctica. Location Stefansson Strait is on the Wilkins Coast of Palmer Land, beside the Weddell Sea to the east. It is east ...

, south of Revelle Inlet and the Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula, southeast of Bowman Inlet, east of the

Morgan Upland Morgan Upland () is a featureless undulating snow plateau in the central Antarctic Peninsula bounded by Cole Glacier and Clarke Glacier on the north and west, by Weyerhaeuser Glacier on the east, by Airy Glacier on the south, and Hariot Glacier ...

and northeast of the Wakefield Highland. The mouth of the inlet is between Miller Point to the north and Cape Walcott to the south. The Athene Glacier enters the inlet to the southwest of Mount Argus. The Casey Glacier enters the inlet from the west. It is fed by Sunfix Glacier from the southwest and Grimley Glacier from the west, which joins Casey Glacier just west of Fin Nunatak.

Discoverty and name

Casey Inlet was photographed from the air by Sir

Hubert Wilkins Sir George Hubert Wilkins MC & Bar (31 October 188830 November 1958), commonly referred to as Captain Wilkins, was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer. He was awarded the Military Cross aft ...

in 1928,

Lincoln Ellsworth Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 – May 26, 1951) was an American polar explorer, engineer, surveyor, and author. He led the first Arctic and Antarctic air crossings. Early life Linn Ellsworth was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 12, 1880. His ...

in 1935 and the

United States Antarctic Service The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has a presence in the ...

(USAS) in 1940. It was surveyed by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...

(FIDS) in 1947. The inlet takes its name from Casey Glacier.

Features

Miller Point

. A black, rock cape rising to high and forming the north side of the entrance to Casey Inlet. Discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in a flight on December 20, 1928, and named by him for George E. Miller of

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, Michigan. It has been more fully defined as a result of flights by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935, and by the flights and sledge journey along this coast from

East Base East Base on Stonington Island is the oldest American research station in Antarctica, having been commissioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. The station was built as part of two US wintering expeditions – United States Antarctic Service Exp ...

by members of the USAS in 1940.

Athene Glacier

. A glacier, long, flowing east and merging with the terminus of Casey Glacier where it discharges into Casey Inlet. Photographed from the air by FIDS in August 1947, and by

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...

(RARE;

Trimetrogon Trimetrogon is an aerial photographic survey method that involves the use of three cameras in one assembly. One camera is pointed directly downwards, and the other two are pointed to either side of the flight path at a 30° depression angle (60° ...

air photography) in December 1947. Surveyed by FIDS in November 1960. Named by UK-APC after

Athene Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress o ...

, daughter of

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and goddess of the city of

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Mount Argus

. A large isolated mountain mass, surmounted by three separate peaks, the highest high. It stands between

Poseidon Pass The Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula() is an ice-covered spur from the main mountain mass of the Antarctic Peninsula. It projects over in a northeasterly arc from its base between Mobiloil Inlet and Casey Inlet. Location The Hollick-Kenyon Peninsul ...

and Athene Glacier, west-northwest of Miller Point. The mountain was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service on September 28, 1940. It was the subject of geological investigation by A.G. Fraser of BAS in 1961. Named by UK-APC (1963) after Argus, son of the god

in Greek mythology.

Casey Glacier

. A glacier wide, flowing east into Casey Inlet. Discovered by Sir

on an aerial flight of December 20, 1928. Wilkins believed the feature to be a channel cutting completely across Antarctic Peninsula, naming it "Casey Channel" after Rt. Hon. Richard G. Casey. Correlation of aerial photographs taken by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935 and preliminary reports of the British Graham Land expedition (BGLE), 1934-37, led W. L. G. Joerg to interpret this glacier to be what Wilkins named "Casey Channel". This interpretation is borne out by the results of subsequent exploration by members of the

of the USAS in 1940.

Sunfix Glacier

. A tributary glacier, long and wide, draining east-northeast between Grimley Glacier and

Lurabee Glacier Stefansson Strait () is an ice-filled strait long and wide, between the east coast of Palmer Land and Hearst Island, Antarctica. Location Stefansson Strait is on the Wilkins Coast of Palmer Land, beside the Weddell Sea to the east. It is east ...

into Casey Glacier. Photographed from the air by RARE on December 22, 1947. Surveyed by FIDS in November 1960. The name derives from the important sun fix for latitude which was observed by FIDS at the head of this glacier, an area where cloud seldom allows such observation.

Grimley Glacier

. A tributary glacier, long and wide. It lies north of Sunfix Glacier and flows east-northeast into Casey Glacier. The glacier was photographed from the air by the USAS on September 28, 1940, and by RARE on December 22, 1947. It was surveyed by FIDS in December 1960. Named by UK-APC for Peter H. Grimley of FIDS, geologist at Horseshoe Island and

Stonington Island Stonington Island is a rocky island lying northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is long from north-west to south-east and wide, yielding an area of . It was formerl ...

in 1960.

Fin Nunatak

. A

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit language, Inuit ) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural pyramidal peaks. Isolated nunataks are also cal ...

high in the middle of Casey Glacier. The nunatak was photographed from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins on December 20, 1928, and was first mapped from these photos by W. L. G. Joerg. Surveyed by FIDS in December 1960. The name by the

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(UK-APC) is suggested by the fin-like shape of the feature.

References

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