Inlet on Heard Island
53°01′28″S 73°23′13″E / 53.024348°S 73.386810°E / -53.024348; 73.386810 Atlas Cove is a
cove on the north coast of
Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the southern
Indian Ocean , and is entered between the base of the
Laurens Peninsula and
Rogers Head .
It was named by American sealers after the
schooner
seal hunting fleet which landed at Heard Island in 1855.
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The name appears on a chart by the
Challenger expedition under
George Nares , which visited the island in
HMS Challenger in 1874 and utilized the names then in use by the sealers.
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From 1947 to 1955, Atlas Cove was the site of camps of visiting scientists.
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In 1969, it was again occupied by American scientists. The settlement was expanded in 1971 by French scientists.
Mapping was updated in 2000.
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References
^ Lazar, Estelle; McGowan, Angela (1987).
"Guidelines for the conservation of historic ANARE and sealing remains at Atlas Cove, Heard Island: a report to the Antarctic Division, Department of Science" . s.n. Retrieved 12 April 2013 .
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Atlas Cove
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"What Mawson saw in the Antarctic" .
The Queenslander . 3 July 1930. p. 42. Retrieved 12 April 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics. Geophysical Section; Australia. Army. Royal Australian Survey Corps (1950),
Sketch map of A.N.A.R.E. station area, Heard Island , Geophysical Section, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, retrieved 12 April 2013
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"Topographic Survey at Atlas Cove, Heard Island, November 2000" . Australian Antarctic Data Centre. 1913. Retrieved 12 April 2013 .
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