Hydrographers Cove (62°12′51″S 58°57′14″W / 62.21414°S 58.95375°W / -62.21414; -58.95375) is a cove between the southwest side of Ardley Island and Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The approved name is a translation of the Russian "Bukhta Gidrografov" (bay of the hydrographers), applied in 1968 following Soviet Antarctic Expedition surveys from Bellingshausen Station.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Hydrographers Cove". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-07-05.

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