Salmon Cove
| Blind Bay | ||
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| Waters | Lallemand Fjord | |
| Land mass | Loubet Coast , Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 5 ′ 7 ″ S , 66 ° 27 ′ 1 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Sölch glacier | |
The Salmon Cove is a bay at the Loubet coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 6 km southeast of McCall Point on the east bank of Lallemand Fjord .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs from the years 1956 to 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on July 7, 1959 after the British meteorologist Eric Michael Paul Salmon (1927–1991) who worked several times for FIDS in Antarctica between 1950 and 1956 and visited this bay in 1956.
Web links
- Salmon Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Salmon Cove on geographic.org (English)