Skontorp Cove
| Skontorp Cove | ||
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| Waters | Paradise Harbor ( Gerlache Street ) | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 54 '42 " S , 62 ° 51' 44" W | |
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| Tributaries | Avalanche Glacier , Suarez Glacier | |
The Skontorp Cove is a side bay of the Paradise Harbor on the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 3 km southeast of Bryde Island . Your entrance is limited to the north by the Coughtrey Peninsula and to the south by Garzón Point .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery , carried out an initial rough mapping. The name of the bay appears for the first time in 1919 as Skontorp Harbor , in 1921 under the current name on maps of the Scottish geologist David Ferguson (1857-1936). It is named after the Norwegian Edvard M. Skontorp (1885 - unknown), captain of a whaler at the whaling company Salvesen & Co. from Leith, Scotland .
Web links
- Skontorp Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skontorp Cove on geographic.org (English)