Tarr Inlet

Tarr Inlet (59˚04'00" 137˚03'00" NW extension of Reid Inlet and Glacier Bay, NW corner of BC on the BC-Alaska boundary). Named about 1912 by Lawrence Martin, of the US Geological Survey, after Ralph Stockman Tarr (1864–1912), a geographer who taught at Harvard and Cornell universities, 1890–1912, and wrote on glaciology, geology and earthquakes. He visited the area in 1911 while on a National Geographic Society expedition. The inlet is of great interest as a geographical anomaly. The...

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