Widdowson Cove (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Widdowson 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.
Cove 4. 5 km wide and 7.5 km deep on the south side of Darbel Bay, Loubet Coast. Named in association with Widdowson Glacier and with the names of biochemists grouped in this area. Dr Elsie May Widdowson (1906-2000), of the Department of Experimental medicine, University of Cambridge, 1938-66, joint author with R.A. McCance (McCance Glacier, q.v.) of The chemical composition of foods (London, 1940), a fundamental work containing all the quantitative data required for calculating expedition ration requirements other than vitamins.
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