Rocky Cove

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

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

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Place ID: 12273
Name ID: 110913

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

between Lapidary Point and Suffield Point, Maxwell Bay, King George Island, following surveys by SAE from "Bellingshausen Station" from 1968, was named Bukhta Kamenistaya [=rocky bay] or Kamenistaya Inlet (Grikurov and Polyakov, 1968, map p.18; 1971, map p.190). Rocky Cove (APC, 1980, p.5).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
62° 11' 40.6" S
-62.19461°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
58° 55' 51.5" W
-58.93097°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
7-Feb-1978

Related information

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