Elephant Seal Cove
| Elephant Seal Cove Polish Zatoka Słoni Morskich |
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| Waters | Katsui Strait | |
| Land mass | King George Island | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 5 '15 " S , 57 ° 56' 45" W | |
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| width | approx. 1 km | |
| depth | approx. 1 km | |
The Elephant Seal Cove ( Polish Zatoka Słoni Morskich "Bay of Elephant Seals ") is a small bay on the south coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between Turret Point and Mersey Spit and opens across from Penguin Island to the Katsui Strait .
The Polish geologist Andrzej Paulo named them in the course of a Polish Antarctic expedition carried out from 1979 to 1980 after the numerous southern elephant seals there . In the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) the bay is erroneously equated with the elephant seal bay of Drakestrasse on the west coast of the Fildes Peninsula , apparently because the data set reported by Germany to SCAR does not contain a description and the both bays are exactly one degree of longitude apart on the same island.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of place names in Antarctica introduced by Poland in 1978-1990. Compiled by Jan Cisak. Polish Polar Research 3, 3-4, Warsaw 1992, pp. 273-302; here p. 280. Accessed August 15, 2017
- ↑ a b Elephant Seal Cove in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed August 15, 2017
- ↑ Elephant Seal Bay in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed August 15, 2017