Pendulum Cove
Pendulum Cove is a cove at the north-east side of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The name of the cove derives from the pendulum and magnetic observations made there by the British expedition under Henry Foster in 1829.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jorge Valdés Romo, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crimson Hill and Relict Lake.
Crimson Hill
Peak
Crimson Hill is a prominent, ice-free hill, 95 metres high, on the south side of Pendulum Cove, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was so named in 1829 by the British expedition under Foster, because there was a prominent stratum of brickstone in the hill.
Relict Lake
Lake
Relict Lake is a small lake lying southeast of Pendulum Cove on Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. So named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1957 because when Lieutenant E.N.
Goddard Hill
Peak
Bynon Hill is an ice-covered, dome-shaped hill with two rounded summits, 340 metres high, standing 1.5 nautical miles north of Pendulum Cove, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name appears on an Argentine government chart of 1953.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aguirre Cerda Research Station.
Aguirre Cerda Research Station
Locality
Photo: Jorval, Public domain.
President Pedro Aguirre Cerda Station was a Chilean Antarctic base, located at Pendulum Cove in Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, inaugurated in 1955.
Pendulum Cove
- Type: Cove
- Description: refuge in Argentina
- Categories: bay and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Pendulum Cove” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “彭杜拉姆灣”
- Chinese: “鐘擺灣”
- German: “Pendulum Cove”
- Italian: “Baia del Pendolo”
- Italian: “Baia Pendolo”
- Spanish: “Caleta Péndulo”
- Spanish: “Péndulo, caleta”
- Swedish: “Pendulum Cove”
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