Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Mobiloil Inlet

(Bowman Coast)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 68° 33' 48" S 64° 57' 21" W
between Periphery Point and Kenyon Peninsula, Bowman Coast, was photographed from the air by Wilkins, 20 December 1928, and named Mobiloil Bay, with S limit in c. 69°35'S, after a product of the Vacuum Oil Company of Australasia. Following a radio report from the expedition in the field, the feature was also shown as Mobiline Bay between c. 67°30'S and 69°35'S. The feature was further photographed from the air by Ellsworth, 21 and 23 November 1935, and was later shown as lying between Periphery Point and Cape Agassiz. Ground surveys by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1936 considerably altered the outline of the feature, and the name Mobiloil Bay was used for a wide indentation in the coast S of Cape Northrop, with S limit in c. 68°50'S. The feature was again photographed from the air, and surveyed from the ground, by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940-41, and the name Mobiloil Bay was applied to the inlet between the E extremity of Joerg Peninsula and Cape Agassiz. At the same time the N entrance of the inlet was variously described as Periphery Point (later named) or the vicinity of Pylon Point (later named). The inlet was resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Hope Bay' and 'Stonington Island', 1947-48, when it was found that a number of inlets lie between Cape Northrop and Cape Agassiz. The feature originally photographed by Wilkins was redefined as above and named Mobiloil Inlet. The inlet was further surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island', 1958-61.