Petrel Cove
| Petrel Cove | ||
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| Waters | Active-Sound | |
| Land mass | Dundee Island ( Joinville Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 28 ′ 1 ″ S , 56 ° 12 ′ 44 ″ W | |
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The Petrel Cove ( Spanish Rada Petrel , Sturmvogelbucht ' ) is a small bay at the western end of the Dundee Island in the archipelago of the Joinville Islands off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between the headland Welchness and the Diana Reef .
The bay got its name together with the neighboring Argentine Petrel station built between 1951 and 1952 . Both are named after the Antarctic petrel. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated this designation into English in 1964.
Web links
- Petrel Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Petrel Cove on geographic.org (English)