Schumsky Bay
| Schumsky Bay | ||
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| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
| Land mass | Arrowsmith Peninsula , Grahamland | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 3 '58 " S , 67 ° 21' 0" W | |
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| Tributaries | Avsyuk Glacier | |
The Schumski Bay ( English Shumskiy Cove ) is a cove in the northwest of Arrowsmith Peninsula on Loubet Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is surrounded by the southern part of the Hanusse Bay .
The Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs from the years between 1956 and 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after the Soviet glaciologist Pyotr Alexandrowitsch Schumski (1915–1988), author of a standard work on the petrology of ice and senior scientist at Mirny Station in the Antarctic winter of 1956.
Web links
- Shumskiy Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shumskiy Cove on geographic.org (English)