Mitchell Cove

Mitchell Cove is to the east of Coppermine Cove, on the coast of Robert Island, amongst the South Shetland Islands, in the British Antarctic Territory.

The cove was roughly charted by nineteenth-century sealers; called Cossets (?) Harbour. The cove was recharted by Discovery Investigations in 1934-35, photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1957-59.

Since Powell's original name had become established for the cove to the west, the present feature was renamed 'Mitchell Cove' after James Mitchell of London, co-owner of the cutter Beaufoy (under Captain J. Weddell, and from ship which the Beaufoy Ridge is named), on her voyage of 1822-24; Mitchell's name had originally been applied by Weddell to Robert Island itself.

Location

• Location map: 62°23’18"N, 59°37’46"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Mitchell Cove