Sentry Cove
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| Waters | Admiralty Bay | |
| Land mass | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 12 ′ 59 ″ S , 58 ° 26 ′ 2 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Green Creek | |
The Sentry Cove (English for sentinel Bay is) a bay on the south coast of King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located on the southwest side of Demay Point in Admiralty Bay .
The British Antarctic Survey surveyed and named the bay between 1975 and 1976. It was named after a dense row of whale skulls at the head of the bay, which looked like a sentinel . Scientists a Polish Antarctic Expedition named it in 1979 as Rajska Zatoka ( Polish for Paradise Bay , English Paradise Cove ).
Web links
- Sentry Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sentry Cove on geographic.org (English)