Cove Rock
Cove Rock is a low offshore rock 3 nautical miles west of North Foreland, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was charted by Discovery Investigations in 1937 and called descriptively Cone Rock; the spelling Cove Rock, likely through error in transcription, appeared in a Hydrographic Office publication in 1942, and became established.Places of Interest
Highlights include Brimstone Peak.
Brimstone Peak
Peak
Brimstone Peak is a conspicuous peak surmounting the rocky headland between Venus Bay and Emerald Bay, on the north coast of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Cove Rock
- Type: Island
- Also known as: “Roca Boveda”
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-61.90095° or 61° 54′ 3″ southLongitude
-57.80333° or 57° 48′ 12″ westOpen location code
38C435XW+JMOpenStreetMap ID
way 1388435447OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cove Rock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Boveda”
- Chinese: “科夫岩”
- Dutch: “Boveda”
- German: “Cove Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cove Rock”
- Spanish: “Boveda, roca”
- Spanish: “Cove, Roca”
- Spanish: “Roca Boveda”
- Spanish: “Roca Cove”
- Swedish: “Boveda”
- Swedish: “Cove Rock”
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