Marinovic Beach is a gently sloping beach on the south shore of

Explorers Cove New Harbour is a bay about wide between Cape Bernacchi and Butter Point along the coast of Victoria Land, due west of Ross Island. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and so named because this new harb ...

, New Harbour, on the

Scott Coast Scott Coast () is the portion of the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica between Cape Washington and Minna Bluff. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 after Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Navy, leader of the ...

of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

after

Baldo Marinovic Baldo may refer to: * Baldo (name), a list of people with the given name or surname * ''Baldo'' (Hector Cantú comic strip), an American comic strip * ''Baldo'' (Italian comics), an Italian comic strip * ''Baldo'' (video game), an action-adventur ...

, a graduate student of biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a member of the 1985 winter party at

McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Unit ...

. During 1984–85, the sea off this beach was a site for the study of the reproductive biology and larval ecology of shallow-water echinoderms by biologists from the university. The name came into local use following the selection of the beach by Marinovic, correctly, as a likely place to study echinoderms.

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Beaches of Antarctica Landforms of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub