Rameau Inlet is a partly ice-filled inlet in southwest Alexander Island

Alexander Island

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

, indenting the north side of Beethoven Peninsula

Beethoven Peninsula

The Beethoven Peninsula is a deeply indented, ice-covered peninsula, long in a northeast-southwest direction and wide at its broadest part, forming the southwest part of Alexander Island, which lies off the southwestern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Mendelssohn Inlet, the Brahms Inlet...

 between Pesce Peninsula

Pesce Peninsula

Pesce Peninsula is a broad snow-covered peninsula between Rameau Inlet and Verdi Inlet on the north side of Beethoven Peninsula, Alexander Island. Photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of Falkland Islands...

 and Cape Westbrook

Cape Westbrook

Cape Westbrook is a snow-covered cape forming the southwest extremity of Alexander Island. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from aerial photographs taken by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947, U.S. Navy, 1967–68, and from U.S. Landsat imagery taken 1972-73. Named by Advisory...

, the southwest extremity of the island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

. Delineated from U.S. Landsat imagery of January 29, 1973, by DOS. In association with names of composers in the area, named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Jean Philippe Rameau (1683–1764), French composer.