The Skelton Inlet is an ice-filled

inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In marine geogra ...

at the terminus of the Skelton Glacier, along the western edge of the

Ross Ice Shelf The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...

in Antarctica. The feature is about 16 km (10 mi) wide at the entry points between Cape Timberlake and

Fishtail Point Fishtail Point () is the southernmost point of Shults Peninsula, at the east side of the mouth of Skelton Glacier in Antarctica. It was surveyed and given this descriptive name in 1957 by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Ex ...

, where it is about 1500 m deep. Its deepest point is 1933 m below sea level. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE), 1901–04, which named this feature for Lt. Reginald W. Skelton ( Royal Navy), chief engineer of the expedition's ship .

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Inlets of Antarctica Bodies of water of the Ross Dependency Hillary Coast {{RossDependency-geo-stub