Hydrurga Cove
| Hydrurga Cove | ||
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| Waters | Fyr Channel | |
| Land mass | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 43 '48 " S , 45 ° 39' 47" W | |
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The Hydrurga Cove is a bay on the southwest coast of Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It opens onto the 310-meter-wide Fyr Channel , on the opposite side of which is Moe Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1991 after the leopard seals ( Latin Hydrurga leptonyx ), a seal species that is common in this bay.
Web links
- Hydrurga Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hydrurga Cove on geographic.org (English)