Name details

Hydrographers Cove

Hydrographers Cove (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Hydrographers Cove  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109446

Feature type: Cove

Origin

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:

Narrative

W of Ardley Island, Fildes Peninsula (q.v.), King George Island, following surveys by SAE from "Bellingshausen Station" from 1968, was named Bukhta Gidrografov [=hydrographers bay] (Grikurov and Polyakov, 1968, map p. 18) or Gidrografov Inlet (Grikurov and Polyakov, 1971, map p.190). Hydrographers Cove (APC, 1980, p.4). The cove is the site of the Chinese station "The Great Wall". Baía Hidrografica (Brazil. Península Fildes map, 1984).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
62° 12' 50.9" S
-62.21414°
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Longitude:
58° 57' 13.5" W
-58.95375°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
7-Feb-1978

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