3-552: Pio Point is a point forming the north side of the entrance to Johnson Cove at the west end of Bird Island , South Georgia . 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 (UK-APC) in 1963. "Pio" is an old sailors' name for the light-mantled sooty albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata),
6-685: A bird which breeds on Bird Island. Prince Creek is a cove north of Pio Point along the west side of Bird Island, South Georgia . The cove was named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (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. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Pio Point" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . [REDACTED] 54°1′S 38°5′W / 54.017°S 38.083°W / -54.017; -38.083 This South Georgia and
9-472: The South Sandwich Islands location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Johnson Cove Johnson Cove ( 54°1′S 38°5′W / 54.017°S 38.083°W / -54.017; -38.083 ) 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
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