Jordan Cove
| Jordan Cove | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | Bird Island , South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 0 ′ 39 ″ S , 38 ° 3 ′ 12 ″ W | |
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The Jordan Cove is a small cove on the south coast of Bird Iceland before the west end of South Georgia .
The South Georgia Survey surveyed the bay between 1951 and 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1958 after the American naturalist David Starr Jordan (1851-1931), who after his time as authorized representative for the investigation of fur seal populations in the northern Pacific (1896-1897) for the protection of these animals , to whose distribution area the bay described here also belongs.
Web links
- Jordan Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jordan Cove on geographic.org (English)