For Seal Cove
For Seal Cove | ||
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Waters | Weddell Sea | |
Land mass | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
Geographical location | 60 ° 43 '44 " S , 45 ° 35' 42" W | |
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The Fur Seal Cove ( English for fur seals Bay is) a small bay on the south coast of Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It lies between Lenton Point and the Gourlay Peninsula .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1991 after the large number of fur seals that inhabit this bay and the adjacent coastline.
Web links
- Fur Seal Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- For Seal Cove on geographic.org (English)