Emerald Cove
| Emerald Cove | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Land mass | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 61 ° 54 '41 " S , 57 ° 42' 59" W | |
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| width | 3 km | |
The Emerald Cove is a 3 km wide bay on the north coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between the North Foreland and Brimstone Peak .
The British navigator William Smith named it in 1819 as [sic] Shireff's Cove after William Henry Shirreff (1785–1847), then in command of the British Pacific Fleet, to whom Smith reported the discovery of the South Shetland Islands. A year later this was confused with Smith's description of a cove on Livingston Island , which has since been named Shirreff Cove . In 1960, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee proposed the now valid naming of the bay described here. It is named after the brig Emerald , a sealer built in Providence in 1817 , which operated together with sister ship Esther as part of the so-called Boston Expedition (1820-1821) in the waters around the South Shetland Islands.
Web links
- Emerald Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Emerald Cove on geographic.org (English)