Casey Inlet
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Casey Inlet is an ice-filled inlet at the terminus of Casey Glacier
Casey Glacier
Casey Glacier is a glacier wide, flowing east into Casey Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land. It was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins on an aerial flight of December 20, 1928. Wilkins believed the feature to be a channel cutting completely across the Antarctic Peninsula, naming it Casey...

, between Miller Point
Miller Point
Miller Point is a black, rock cape rising to 250 m and forming the north side of the entrance to Casey Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in a flight on December 20, 1928, and named by him for George E. Miller of Detroit, MI...

 and Cape Walcott
Cape Walcott
Cape Walcott is a bold, ice-covered headland rising to 625 m, forming the seaward extremity of Scripps Heights on the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and named by him for Frederic C. Walcott of the Council of the American Geographical Society....

, on the east coast of Palmer Land
Palmer Land
Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

. It was photographed from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928, Lincoln Ellsworth
Lincoln Ellsworth
Lincoln Ellsworth was an arctic explorer from the United States.-Birth:He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois...

 in 1935 and the United States Antarctic Service in 1940. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947. The inlet takes its name from Casey Glacier.
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