COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

Cove indenting the W coast of Graham Land immediately E of Mount Banck. First roughly charted by the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99, and later, by the Scottish geologist David Ferguson, 1913-14. Named for Lt. Eladio Mascias of the tug Argentine Antarctic Expedition of 1949-50.

off S side of Ferguson Channel, Danco Coast, was charted by whalers, c. 1913-14 (Ferguson, 1921, map p.46); further charted by AAE, 1949-50, and called Caleta Mascías after Tte Eladio Mascías, of the Argentine Navy in the expedition tugboat Chiriguano, who worked in the area (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.253; chart 106, 1954; Pierrou, 1970, p.510); photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Danco Island", 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of photography grouped in this area, named after Johann Christoph Sturm (1635-1703), German mathematician who, in 1676, designed the first satisfactory portable reflex camera obscura for drawing, a stage in the evolution of the photographic camera (APC, 1960, p.7; BA chart 3566, 25.viii. 1961). A refuge hut was established E of the cove by AAE, 1954-55, and called "Refugio Conscripto Ortíz" after Carlos Ortíz, a sailor in Bahía Aguirre who died in an accident in that season (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.113; Pierrou, 1970, p.261). The hut is believed to have been destroyed by ice, 1961-62. Mascías Cove (USBGN, 1965, p.101). Sturar [sic] Cove (BA, 1974, p.187).