Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Sentry Cove (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sentry Cove (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cove
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
W of Demay Point, Admiralty Bay, King George Island, following geological work by BAS, 1975-76, was so named from the serried row of up-ended whale skulls along the beach at the head of the cove (APC, 1980, p.5). Paradise Cove, so called by PAE from its picturesque appearance (Birkenmajer, 1979b, map Fig. 3, p.3). Rajska Zatoka [=paradise bay] (Birkenmajer, 1980b, p.81).
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