Shingle Cove (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Shingle 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:
on W side of Iceberg Bay, S Coronation Island, was roughly charted by DI in 1933 (BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934), when the name Useless Bay was applied probably to this feature (Tilley, 1935, map p.387 and p.388); surveyed by FIDS from Signy, 1948-49, and named Shingle Cove from the fine shingle on the landing beach on its S shore (APC, 1955, p.19; DOS 510 South Orkney Island, West Sheet, 1963); resurveyed by FIDS from Signy, 1956-58. In May 1962 a BAS refuge, known as "Shingle Hut", was established on the beach.
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