Macdonald Cove
| Macdonald Cove | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 0 '35 " S , 37 ° 28' 26" W | |
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The Macdonald Cove is a bay on the north coast of South Georgia . It is located 4 km south-southeast of the Welcome Islands on the west bank of the peninsula that ends in Cape Buller . Significant fossils have been discovered on its own bank .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1982 after the geologist David Ian McPherson Macdonald (* 1953) who led the work of the British Antarctic Survey in this area between 1975 and 1977 in two summer campaigns.
Web links
- Macdonald Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Macdonald Cove on geographic.org (English)