Coughtrey Peninsula
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Coughtrey Peninsula () is a small hook-shaped peninsula at the north side of the entrance to
Skontorp Cove Skontorp Cove () is a cove in Paradise Harbor, lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) southeast of Bryde Island along the west coast of Graham Land. Named for Edvard Skontorp, an outstanding Norwegian whale gunner, who commanded a whaler for Salvesen ...
,
Paradise Harbor Paradise Harbour, also known as Paradise Bay, is a wide embayment behind Lemaire and Bryde Islands in Antarctica, indenting the west coast of Graham Land between Duthiers and Leniz Points. The name was first applied by whalers operating in t ...
, on the west coast of
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...
. It was first mapped as an island in 1913–14 by Scottish geologist David Ferguson, who named it "Coughtrey Island". The feature is, however, a peninsula and the site of the
Almirante Brown Station Brown Station ( es, Estación Científica Almirante Brown, or more often ''Base Brown'' or ''Estación Brown'') is an Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station named after Admiral William Brown, the father of the Argentine Nav ...
, established by Argentina in 1949–50.


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* Peninsulas of Graham Land Danco Coast {{DancoCoast-geo-stub