Hugershoff Cove is a cove

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 less than 1 nautical mile (1.8 km) south from Louise Island

Louise Island, Antarctica

Louise Island is an ice-covered island 0.6 miles long, lying 1 mile west of Emma Island, and 1 mile east of Cape Anna and Anna Cove on the southwest side of the entrance to Wilhelmina Bay, 1 mile northwest of the entrance to Hugershoff Cove, along the west coast of Graham Land...

 and Emma Island

Emma Island, Antarctica

Emma Island is a 1.5 mile long island with bare jagged peaks projecting through an icecap, lying 1 mile east of Louise Island and 4 miles west of Nansen Island in the southwest half of the entrance to Wilhelmina Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land...

, and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northwest of Beaupre Cove

Beaupre Cove

Beaupré Cove is a cove wide lying between Jones Point and O'Neal Point, northwest of Piccard Cove in Wilhelmina Bay, along the west coast of Graham Land...

 in Wilhelmina Bay

Wilhelmina Bay

Wilhelmina Bay is a bay wide between the Reclus Peninsula and Cape Anna along the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, and named for Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands....

, 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...

. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition

Belgian Antarctic Expedition

The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897 to 1899, named after its expedition vessel Belgica, was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region.- Preparation and Surveying :...

 under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Carl R. Hugershoff (1882–1941), German geodesist who designed the autocartograph, an instrument which first applied the principles of photogrammetry to air photos, in about 1921.