Widdowson Cove
| Widdowson Cove | ||
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| Waters | Darbel Bay | |
| Land mass | Grahamland ( Antarctic Peninsula ) | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 43 ′ 5 ″ S , 65 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | 4.5 km | |
| depth | 7.5 km | |
| Tributaries | Widdowson Glacier | |
The Widdowson Cove is a 4.5 km wide and 7.5 km long bay on the Loubet Coast Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located south of Sokol Point on the south side of Darbel Bay . The Widdowson Glacier flows into it .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 2016, like the glacier of the same name in 1959, after the British physician and nutritionist Elsie May Widdowson (1906–2000) from the University of Cambridge , who worked from 1938 to 1966 on the development of food rations for British people Polar expeditions was involved.
Web links
- Widdowson Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)