Lester Cove
| Lester Cove | ||
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| Waters | Andvord Bay ( Gerlache Strait ) | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 34 ′ 59 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Bagshawe Glacier , Grubb Glacier | |
The Lester Cove is a bay on the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It forms the southernmost section of Andvord Bay .
It was discovered during the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after the British geologist Maxime Charles Lester (1891-1957), who worked with Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe (1901-1976) in the course of the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition (1920-1922) under the direction of John Lachlan Copes (1893-1947) lived between January 1921 and January 1922 at the nearby Waterboat Point and carried out geodetic survey work in the area.
Web links
- Lester Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lester Cove on geographic.org (English)