Gin Cove
| Gin Cove Bahía Villar Fabre, Caleta Falcón |
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 24 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Ineson Glacier | |
The Gin Cove (in Argentina Bahía Villar Fabre and Caleta Falcón ) is a bay on the northwest coast of the West Antarctic James Ross Island . It is north of the Tumbledown Cliffs .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them on April 3, 1984, based on the naming of other geographical objects in the area, which are named after alcoholic beverages, after the gin . The namesake of the first name used in Argentina is the geologist Jorge Félix Villar Fabre.
Web links
- Gin Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gin Cove on geographic.org (English)