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)
Oviedo Cove (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Oviedo 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:
SE of Cape Wiman, Seymour Island. Called "Caleta Oviedo" by Argentina after an Argentine sailor who died in the Antarctic (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter O). The name "Larsen Cove", after Kapt. C.A. Larsen was later applied to the feature by USARP geologists (Zinsmeister, 1980, p. 25; Brecher and Tope, 1988, loose map).
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