Sooty Cove
| Sooty Cove | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | Bird Island | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 0 ′ 40 ″ S , 38 ° 2 ′ 24 ″ W | |
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The Sooty Cove is a bay on the south coast of Bird Iceland before the north-west tip of South Georgia . It is located immediately north of Shoemaker Point .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the light-mantled albatross ( Phoebetria palpebrata , English Light-mantled Sooty Albatross ), one of the breeding grounds Bird Iceland.
Web links
- Sooty Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sooty Cove on geographic.org (English)