Cierva Cove
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Cierva Cove is a cove
lying 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Cape Sterneck
in Hughes Bay
, just south of Chavdar Peninsula
along the west coast of Graham Land
, Antarctica. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in 1960 for Juan de la Cierva
, Spanish designer of the autogiro, the first successful rotating wing aircraft in 1923.
Cove
A cove is a small type of bay or coastal inlet. They usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often inside a larger bay. Small, narrow, sheltered bays, inlets, creeks, or recesses in a coast are often considered coves...
lying 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Cape Sterneck
Cape Sterneck
Cape Sterneck is a bold, black cliff on a projecting point of Chavdar Peninsula forming the north side of the entrance to Hughes Bay, on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula...
in Hughes Bay
Hughes Bay
Hughes Bay is the 42 km wide bay indenting for 20 km Danco Coast on the west side of Graham Land, Antarctica, lying south of Chavdar Peninsula and north of Pefaur Peninsula, and entered between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray....
, just south of Chavdar Peninsula
Chavdar Peninsula
Chavdar Peninsula is a 10-km wide peninsula projecting 13 km in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Bounded by Curtiss Bay to the northeast, Hughes Bay to the southwest and Gerlache Strait to the northwest...
along the west coast of Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
, Antarctica. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...
in 1960 for Juan de la Cierva
Juan de la Cierva
Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of De La Cierva was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and aeronuatical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of the Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the English language...
, Spanish designer of the autogiro, the first successful rotating wing aircraft in 1923.