Shallop Cove

Shallop Cove

Shallop Cove (coord|54|14|S|37|20|W|) is a cove forming the head of Queen Maud Bay on the south side of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and so named because the remains of a shallop were found here by the SGS in 1956.


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