Tern Cove

Tern Cove (60°42′S 45°37′W / 60.700°S 45.617°W / -60.700; -45.617Coordinates: 60°42′S 45°37′W / 60.700°S 45.617°W / -60.700; -45.617) is a small cove, the entrance to which is blocked by submerged rocks, lying immediately southeast of Berry Head in the north part of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands. The cove contains three small islands, and an area near the head dries at low water. Roughly charted in 1933 by DI personnel. Named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), following their survey of 1947, for the colony of terns (Sterna vitata) on the southernmost island in the cove.

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