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Geographers Cove

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Geographers Cove (62°13′02″S 59°01′05″W / 62.21714°S 59.01800°W / -62.21714; -59.01800) is a cove between Flat Top Peninsula and Exotic Point on the southwest side of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The approved name is a translation of the Russian "Bukhta Geografov" (geographers' bay), applied in 1968 following Soviet Antarctic Expedition surveys from nearby Bellingshausen Station.[1]

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  1. ^ "Geographers Cove". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-04-19.

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