Pipe Cove
| Pipe Cove | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 42 ′ 18 ″ S , 45 ° 39 ′ 29 ″ W | |
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The Pipe Cove is a small cove on the west coast of Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is south of Thulla Cove and east of Jebsen Rocks .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys between 1947 and 1950. Aerial photographs were taken in 1968 by the Royal Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2004 after an old water pipe ( English pipe ), the whalers had left here.
Web links
- Pipe Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)