Gash Cove
| Gash Cove | ||
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| Waters | Orwell Bight | |
| Land mass | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 42 '34 " S , 45 ° 35' 16" W | |
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The Gash Cove (from colloquial English gash , garbage, trash, rubbish ' ) is a small bay on the east coast of Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is located south of Berntsen Point .
Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) surveyed the bay between 1947 and 1950. Aerial photographs were taken in 1968 by the Royal Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it that way in 2004 because the FIDS and the British Antarctic Survey had disposed of its rubbish here until 1991 when stricter environmental regulations prevented it.
Web links
- Gash Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)