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.- Island
- …is also known as “Roca Boveda”
- Description: island in the South Shetland Islands
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Cove Rock
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-61.90095° or 61° 54′ 3″ south
Longitude
-57.80333° or 57° 48′ 12″ west
Open location code
38C435XW+JM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place = island
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cove Rock” goes by many names.
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