Sjögren Inlet - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Sjögren Inlet is an inlet

Inlet

An inlet is a narrow body of water between islands or leading inland from a larger body of water, often leading to an enclosed body of water, such as a sound, bay, lagoon or marsh. In sea coasts an inlet usually refers to the actual connection between a bay and the ocean and is often called an...

exposed following the retreat of Sjögren Glacier

Sjogren Glacier

Sjogren Glacier is a glacier 12.5 miles long in the south part of Trinity Peninsula, flowing southeast from Detroit Plateau to enter Prince Gustav Channel at the head of Sjögren Inlet, south of the terminus of Boydell Glacier. Discovered in 1903 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under...

, approximately 17 km long, running east-southeast from the base of Sjögren Glacier, Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

, into Prince Gustav Channel

Prince Gustav Channel

The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James Ross Island...

, north of Longing Peninsula. Entered south of Mount Wild

Mount Wild (Graham Land)

Mount Wild is a sharply defined rock ridge with several summits, the highest 945 m, standing at the north side of the entrance to Sjögren Inlet on the east coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. First charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945 and named for Frank...

. The inlet is named in association with Sjögren Glacier.

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