Stygian Cove
Signy Island is a small subantarctic island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was named by the Norwegian whaler Petter Sørlle after his wife, Signy Therese.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sombre Lake and Heywood Lake.
Sombre Lake
Lake
Paternoster Valley is a valley extending southwestward from Stygian Cove in northern Signy Island. So named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee from the occurrence of three small paternoster lakes, at different levels in the valley.
Heywood Lake
Lake
Three Lakes Valley is a low valley containing three freshwater lakes, extending from the vicinity of Elephant Flats northward to Stygian Cove on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.
Robin Peak
Peak
Robin Peak is a sharply defined rocky summit which is the northernmost peak on Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1954 for Gordon de Quetteville Robin of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, the leader at Signy Island base in 1947, who made the first detailed survey of the island.
Stygian Cove
- Type: Bay
- Description: cove
- Categories: cove and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-60.68484° or 60° 41′ 5″ southLongitude
-45.60738° or 45° 36′ 27″ westOpen location code
38FP898V+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 10296915653OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
6626212Wikidata ID
Q58507
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Stygian Cove” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “斯蒂吉恩灣”
- German: “Stygian Cove”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stygian Cove”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stygian Cove”
- Norwegian: “Stygian Cove”
- Spanish: “Stygian Cove”
- Swedish: “Stygian Cove”
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