Sooty Cove
Sooty Cove is a small cove just north of Shoemaker Point along the south side of Bird Island, South Georgia. The name, applied by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee, derives from the light-mantled sooty albatross which breeds on the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gony Point and Hornaday Rock.
Gony Point
Peak
Gony Point is a high tussock-covered point 0.5 miles southwest of Cardno Point, on the southeast side of Bird Island, South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963.
Hornaday Rock
Hornaday Rock is a rock lying in Bird Sound, 0.6 nautical miles west-southwest of Cape Alexandra at the west end of South Georgia. The feature appears on charts dating back to the 1930s.Roché Peak
Peak
Roché Peak is a conspicuous peak rising to 365 metres, the highest feature on Bird Island, South Georgia. It stands 1.6 kilometres west of the east extremity of the island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cordall Stacks and Pio Point.
Cordall Stacks
Locality
The Cordall Stacks are two conspicuous rock stacks, the eastern one joined to Bird Island, South Georgia, by a low isthmus, lying on the northwest side of the island 0.3 nautical miles northwest of Jordan Cove.
Pio Point
Locality
Pio Point is a point forming the north side of the entrance to Johnson Cove at the west end of Bird Island, South Georgia. Roughly charted by DI personnel on the Discovery in the period 1926-30 and surveyed by HMS Owen in 1960–61. Pio Point is situated 3 km west of Sooty Cove.
Pyramid Point
Locality
Elsehul is a bay along the north coast of South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Elsehul is approximately 0.5 miles wide, and is separated from nearby Undine Harbour by the narrow Survey Isthmus. Pyramid Point is situated 5 km east of Sooty Cove.
Sooty Cove
- Type: Cove
- Description: cove in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Categories: cove and body of water
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Sooty Cove” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “蘇蒂灣”
- German: “Sooty Cove”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sooty Cove”
- Spanish: “Sooty Cove”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shoemaker Point and Main Bay.
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