Sydney Cove (Heard)
| Sydney Cove | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Land mass | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 58 ′ 19 ″ S , 73 ° 18 ′ 40 ″ E | |
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The Sydney Cove is an open bay of the island Heard in the archipelago of Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the southern Indian Ocean . It is located immediately southeast of Red Island on the north side of the Laurens Peninsula .
The bay can be found for the first time under the name Shanghai Bay on the map of the US seal catcher captain HC Chester from 1860 . Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions surveyed and renamed the site in 1948. The new namesake is the Australian city of Sydney .
Web links
- Sydney Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sydney Cove on geographic.org (English)