Mutton Cove
| Mutton Cove | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Land mass | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 0 '30 " S , 65 ° 39' 8" W | |
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| Islands | Cliff Island , Girdler Island , Upper Island | |
The Mutton Cove (English for Hammel Bay ) is a natural harbor in front of the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 800 m northeast of the southern end of Beer Island , which covers the bay to the west. It is limited by the islands of Harp Island , Upper Island , Cliff Island and Girdler Island in the Biscoe Islands archipelago .
Participants of the British Grahamland Expedition (1934–1937) discovered the bay. Expedition leader John Rymill named it after a bay of the same name near the Devonport naval base , the training place of the expedition member and naval lieutenant Robert Edward Dudley Ryder (1908-1986).
Web links
- Mutton Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mutton Cove on geographic.org (English)