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Rocky Cove: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Rocky Cove in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division

Feature Name (see definition): Rocky Cove

Feature Class (see definition): Bay

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 12787

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 62° 12' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 058° 56' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -62.2

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -58.9333333

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): No data

Description (see definition): A cove between Lapidary Point and Suffield Point, Maxwell Bay, King George Island. Following surveys by Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SovAE) from 1968, the feature was called "Bukhta Kamenistaya" (rocky bay). The name has been approved in the translated form recommended by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1978.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Rocky Cove in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Rocky Cove information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Rocky Cove should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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