Ardley Cove
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 View from the Fildes Peninsula over the Chilean Frei Station to Ardley Cove with Diomedea Island (right of center) |
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| Waters | Maxwell Bay ( Bransfield Street ) | |
| Land mass | King George Island and Ardley Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 12 ′ 3 ″ S , 58 ° 57 ′ 12 ″ W | |
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| width | approx. 2 km | |
| depth | approx. 2.5 km | |
| Islands | Diomedea Island | |
| Tributaries | Steinbach , Holzbach , Kiesbach , Station Creek | |
The Ardley Cove ( Spanish Caleta Ardley ) is a side bay of the Maxwell Bay of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is northeast of Ardley Island .
This bay, named by Argentine scientists around 1957 and the island of the same name, was named after Richard Arthur Blyth Ardley (1906–1942), officer on board the RRS Discovery II as part of the British Discovery Investigations (1929–1931 and 1931–1933). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated the name into English in 1978.
In the bay is Diomedea Island (labeled "Albatrosinsel" on the German map from 1984). South of the isthmus , which only dries out at low tide and connects Ardley Island with the Fildes Peninsula , is the Hydrographers Cove . At the northern entrance of the bay is the Rocky Cove ("stone bay"), into which the stone , wood and gravel stream flow. Station Creek coming from Lake Kitezh flows into the western tip of the bay (“Kiteschsee” and “Kiteschbach” on the map).
To the west of the bay are the research stations Bellingshausen and Eduardo Frei and Villa Las Estrellas , one of only two civilian settlements in Antarctica .
Web links
- Ardley Cove on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ardley Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed August 16, 2017
- ^ Dietrich Barsch, Wolf-Dieter Blümel, Wolfgang-Albert Flügel, Roland Mäusbacher, Gerhard Stäblein and Wolfgang Zick: Investigations on the periglacial on the König-Georg-Insel, South Shetland Islands / Antarctica. German physiogeographic research in the Antarctic. Report on the 1983/84 campaign. Reports on polar research No. 24, November 1985, map on p. 14. hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed on July 24, 2018