Pio Point is a point forming the north side of the entrance to

Johnson Cove Johnson Cove () is a cove entered between Pio Point and Pearson Point on the west side of Bird Island, off the west end of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used in a 1948 British Admiralty The Admiralty was a department of the Go ...

at the west end of Bird Island,

South Georgia South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east� ...

. Roughly charted by DI personnel on the Discovery in the period 1926-30 and surveyed by HMS Owen in 1960–61. Named by the

United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

(UK-APC) in 1963. "Pio" is an old sailors' name for the light-mantled sooty albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata), a bird which breeds on Bird Island.

Prince Creek

Prince Creek is a cove north of Pio Point along the west side of

Bird Island, South Georgia Bird Island ( es, Isla Pájaro) is long and wide, separated from the western end of South Georgia by Bird Sound. It is part of the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, also claimed by Argentina as part of ...

. The cove was named by

(UK-APC) for Peter A. Prince, assistant in fur seal investigations, Bird Island, 1971–74, and principal investigator on fur seals and birds, 1975–76.

References

Coves of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Headlands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub