Marinovic Beach

Marinovic Beach

Marinovic Beach is a gently sloping beach on the south shore of Explorers Cove, New Harbour, on the Scott Coast of Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Baldo Marinovic, graduate student (biology), University of California, Santa Cruz, and member of the 1985 winter party at McMurdo Station. During 1984-85, the sea off this beach was a site for the study of reproductive biology and larval ecology of shallow-water echinoderms by biologists of the University of California, Santa Cruz. The name came into local use following the selection of the beach by Marinovic, correctly, as a likely place to study echinoderms.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Marinovic Beach" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

Coordinates: 77°35′S 163°34′E / 77.583°S 163.567°E / -77.583; 163.567