Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Iquique Cove (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Iquique 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:
E side of Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island, between Guesalaga Peninsula (q.v.) and González Island, was charted by CAE in 1947, and named Caletón Iquique after the Chilean naval frigate Iquique, which in that season landed the first occupation party for the Chilean station "Arturo Prat" on the cove (Chile. DNH chart 500, 1951; IHA, 1974, p.160); recharted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit from HMS Protector in 1964. Iquique Cove (BA, 1965, p.30; chart 1774, 19.vii.1968; APC, 1974, p.4).
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