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Collins Rock () is a low rock at the south side of the entrance to
McGrady Cove McGrady Cove () is a cove at the head of Newcomb Bay in the Windmill Islands of Antarctica. It was first mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948, and was named by the Advisory Committee ...
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Newcomb Bay Newcomb Bay is a sheltered bay about 1 mile (1.6 km) in extent, between Clark Peninsula and Bailey Peninsula in the Windmill Islands area. First mapped from U.S. Navy Operation Highjump aerial photographs taken in February 1947. In Februar ...
, on Budd Coast in Antarctica. It was first mapped from
U.S. Navy Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...
aerial photographs taken in February 1947, they surveyed in February 1957 by a party from the USS ''Glacier''. The name was suggested by Lieutenant Robert C. Newcomb, U.S. Navy, navigator of the ''Glacier'', for Engineman Frederick A. Collins, U.S. Navy, a member of the survey party.


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* Rock formations of Wilkes Land {{WilkesLand-geo-stub