Cangrejo Cove
| Cangrejo Cove | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Flanders | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 4 '45 " S , 63 ° 38' 41" W | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
The Cangrejo Cove ( Spanish Bahia Cangrejo , cancer bay ' ; in the UK Crab Cove is a 2.5 km deep) Bay on the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the north side of the Kiev Peninsula , it is located immediately west of Azure Cove in the south-western part of the Bay of Flanders .
It was first roughly mapped on the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) under the direction of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . The bay received its descriptive name from participants in an Argentine Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1951 to 1952. The name is derived from a small peninsula on the west side of the bay, which from a bird's eye view reminds of the pincers of a crab. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1965. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1978 on a full translation.
Web links
- Cangrejo Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cangrejo Cove on geographic.org (English)