Evans Cove
| Evans Cove | ||
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 Evans Cove between Inexpressible Island (left) and Cape Russell (center) |
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| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Land mass | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Evans Cove is a small side bay of Terra Nova Bay on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies between Inexpressible Island and Cape Russell .
The bay was discovered and mapped by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after Frederick Pryce Evans (1874–1959), the captain of the expedition ship Nimrod for the return of the expedition members to New Zealand in the spring of 1909.
See also
Web links
- Evans Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Evans Cove on geographic.org (English)
- Evans Cove. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts: Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 123 (English)