Covey Rocks
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Covey Rocks are a small group of rocks in Laubeuf Fjord
Laubeuf Fjord
Laubeuf Fjord is a sound in Antarctica, 25 miles long in a north-south direction and averaging 10 miles wide, lying between the east-central portion of Adelaide Island and the southern part of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land. It connects Hanusse Bay to the north with Marguerite Bay to the south...

, lying midway between Pinero Island
Pinero Island
Pinero Island is an island 2 nautical miles long and 0.5 nautical miles wide, lying about 4.5 nautical miles northwest of Pourquoi Pas Island, off the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908–10, and named by him for Dr. Antonio F...

 and Cape Saenz
Cape Saenz
Cape Saenz is a cape between Laubeuf and Bigourdan Fjords, forming the south extremity of Arrowsmith Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908–10, and named by him for Dr. Roque Sáenz Peña, President of the Argentine Republic,...

, off 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...

. They were first roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition
British Graham Land Expedition
A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 under Rymill. They were resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who gave the name because of the resemblance of these rocks to a covey of partridges sitting in a field.
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