Bednarz Cove
| Bednarz Cove | ||
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| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
| Land mass | Wilkesland , Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Bednarz Cove is a bay on the Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It is located on the south side of the Mitchell Peninsula .
It was first mapped using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy in 1947 and 1948 during Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1963 after Donald Francis Bednarz (1930-1973), who was the senior electrical engineer at Wilkes Station in 1958.
Web links
- Bednarz Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bednarz Cove on geographic.org (English)