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Feature Name (see definition): Cacapon Inlet Feature Class (see definition): Stream Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica) Feature ID (see definition): 2274 Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 66° 10' 00" S Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 101° 00' 00" E Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -66.1666667 Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 101 Elevation (see definition): No data Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1956 Description (see definition): An inlet about 2 mi wide and 9 mi long, lying between Thomas Island and Fuller Island in the Highjump Archipelago. The inlet is bounded on the west by Edisto Ice Tongue and on the east by the coast of Antarctica. Mapped from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Highjump in February 1947. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after USS Cacapon, a tanker in the Western Task Group of Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Date Created (see definition): No data Date Edited (see definition): No data NOTE: The information regarding Cacapon Inlet in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Cacapon Inlet information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Cacapon Inlet should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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