53°01′28″S73°23′13″E / 53.024348°S 73.386810°E /-53.024348; 73.386810
Atlas Cove is acove on the north coast ofHeard Island and McDonald Islands in the southernIndian Ocean, and is entered between the base of theLaurens Peninsula andRogers Head.
It was named by American sealers after theschoonerseal hunting fleet which landed at Heard Island in 1855.[1]
The name appears on a chart by theChallenger expedition underGeorge Nares, which visited the island inHMS Challenger in 1874 and utilized the names then in use by the sealers.[2]
From 1947 to 1955, Atlas Cove was the site of camps of visiting scientists.[3][4]
In 1969, it was again occupied by American scientists. The settlement was expanded in 1971 by French scientists.
Mapping was updated in 2000.[5]
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