Exasperation Inlet

Exasperation Inlet is a large ice-filled inlet, 16 miles wide at its entrance between Foyn Point and Cape Disappointment, on the Oscar II Coast, part of the east coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.

The inlet was roughly surveyed by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in October 1902 and called Sandefiordsbukten: it was taken to be the eastern entrance of a channel which Wilkins supposed to cut through Graham Land (and which he called 'Crane Channel').

The inlet was recharted in 1947 and in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. The Survey named the inlet 'Exasperation' in association with Cape Disappointment and because the disturbed nature of the shelf ice in the vicinity caused considerable difficulty to sledging parties.

The inlet was further surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Hope Bay" in 1961.

Location

• Location map: 65°19’26"S, 61°49’21"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Exasperation Inlet