Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Hopkins Cove (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hopkins 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:
Cove 2.5 km wide and 3.5 km deep on the eastern side of Darbel Bay, Loubet Coast. Named in association with Hopkins Glacier. Named after Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947), founder of the School of Biochemistry and Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 1914-43, who made pioneering investigations on synthetic diets and vitamins of importance to the development of sledge rations; Nobel Laureate in medicine, 1929.
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