Rocky Cove

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Rocky Cove
бухта Каменистая
Waters Maxwell Bay
Land mass Fildes Peninsula ( King George Island )
Geographical location 62 ° 11 ′ 41 ″  S , 58 ° 55 ′ 51 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 11 ′ 41 ″  S , 58 ° 55 ′ 51 ″  W
Rocky Cove (South Shetland Islands)
Rocky Cove
width approx. 500 m
Tributaries Kiesbach , Holzbach , Steinbach

The Rocky Cove ( Russian бухта Каменистая, buchta Kamenistaja - "Stony Bay") is a small side bay of Maxwell Bay on the south coast of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It is located in the northeast of the Fildes Peninsula between Lapidary Point and Suffield Point , to the north of the entrance to Ardley Cove .

The bay was named бухта Каменистая on a map from 1968 by the 13th Soviet Antarctic Expedition from Bellingshausen Station . On an English-language map by the same authors from 1971, the bay is labeled "Kamenistaya Inlet". The British Antarctic Place-names Committee (APC) translated the Russian name into English in 1978.

Three brooks named Kies- , Holz- and Steinbach flow into the bay (labeled “Steinbucht” on the German map from 1984) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rocky Cove (GBR) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed September 2, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c Rocky Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed September 2, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Dietrich Barsch, Wolf-Dieter Blümel, Wolfgang-Albert Flügel, Roland Mäusbacher, Gerhard Stäblein and Wolfgang Zick: Investigations on the periglacial on the König-Georg-Insel, South Shetland Islands / Antarctica. German physiogeographic research in the Antarctic. Report on the 1983/84 campaign. Polar Research Reports No. 24, November 1985, map on p. 14. hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed on July 25, 2018

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