Potter Cove
| Potter Cove | ||
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| Waters | Maxwell Bay , Bransfield Street | |
| Land mass | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 14 ′ 2 ″ S , 58 ° 41 ′ 4 ″ W | |
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The Potter Cove is a bay on the southwest coast of King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is east of the Barton Peninsula .
The bay was discovered by the British captain John Roberts, who sailed the waters around King George Island with the sealer King George between 1820 and 1821 . The British sealer captain Robert Fildes (1793-1827) gave the bay its name in 1821. However, the naming background has not been passed down.
Web links
- Potter Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Potter Cove on geographic.org (English)