Blunt Cove
| Blunt Cove | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Land mass | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 108 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Tributaries | Bond glacier | |
The Blunt Cove is a side bay of Vincennes Bay in the area of the Knox coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland .
The American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) mapped them using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1955 after Simon Fraser Blunt (1818-1854), midshipman on the USS Vincennes in the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) under the direction of the US polar explorer Charles Wilkes .
Web links
- Blunt Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blunt Cove on geographic.org (English)