Bluff Cove
Bluff Cove is a sea inlet and settlement on East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, on its east coast. It was the site of secondary landings of the Falklands War of 1982, which resulted in a successful attack of the Argentine Air Force, which came to be known as the Bluff Cove Disaster.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Falkland Islands, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Dársena Fitz Roy”, “Fitzroy Basin”, “Hoya Fitz Roy”, and “Port Pleasant”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fitzroy.
Fitzroy
Hamlet
Photo: chris lovelock, CC BY 2.0.
Fitzroy is a settlement on East Falkland. It is divided into Fitzroy North and Fitzroy South by a tidal river called Fitzroy River that is fed from a lake on the east side of Mount Whickham.
Bluff Cove
- Category: body of water
- Location: Falkland Islands, South America
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Latitude
-51.74475° or 51° 44′ 41″ southLongitude
-58.16336° or 58° 9′ 48″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Open location code
38W37R4P+4MOpenStreetMap ID
node 4378938296OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bluff Cove” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fitzroy Basin”
- Chinese: “布拉夫灣”
- German: “Bluff Cove”
- German: “Port Pleasant”
- Russian: “Блафф (бухта)”
- Russian: “Блафф”
- Spanish: “Bahia Agradable”
- Spanish: “Bahía Agradable”
- Spanish: “Bluff Cove”
- Spanish: “Hoya Chasco”
- Spanish: “Hoya Fitzroy”
- Swedish: “Fitzroy Basin”
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Localities in the Area
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