Akkuratnaya Cove
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Akkuratnaya Cove () is a small cove east-southeast of
Nadezhdy Island Nadezhdy Island is a bare rock island nearly long, lying just off the north-central side of Schirmacher Hills, Queen Maud Land. First photographed from the air by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedi ...
, indenting the north side of the
Schirmacher Hills Schirmacher Hills () is a line of low coastal hills, 11 nautical miles (20 km) long, with numerous meltwater ponds (Schirmacher Oasis), standing 40 nautical miles (70 km) north of the Humboldt Mountains along the coast of Queen Maud Land ...
, Queen Maud Land. First photographed from the air by the
Third German Antarctic Expedition New Swabia (Norwegian and german: Neuschwabenland) was a disputed Antarctic claim by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Land and is now a cartographic name sometimes given to an area of Antarctica between 20°E a ...
, 1938–39. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1961 and named ''Bukhta Akkuratnaya'' ("accurate cove").


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* Coves of Queen Maud Land Princess Astrid Coast {{PrincessAstridCoast-geo-stub