A cove is a small bay or coastal inlet . They usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often situated within a larger bay . Small, narrow, sheltered bays, inlets, creeks , or recesses in a coast are often considered coves.
4-410: Rocky Cove ( 62°11′41″S 58°55′51″W / 62.19461°S 58.93097°W / -62.19461; -58.93097 ) is a cove between Lapidary Point and Suffield Point , Maxwell Bay , King George Island . Following surveys by Soviet Antarctic Expedition from 1968, the feature was called " Bukhta Kamenistaya " (rocky bay ). The name has been approved in the translated form recommended by
8-636: The Jurassic Coast in Dorset , England. To its west, a second cove, Stair Hole , is forming. Coves are formed by differential erosion , which occurs when softer rocks are worn away faster than the harder rocks surrounding them. These rocks further erode to form a circular bay with a narrow entrance, called a cove . Another way is that waves can transport rocks and sediment towards cliffs or rock faces, which helps erode softer rock and gradually form coves due to friction. Additionally, rivers or streams that flow into
12-521: The United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1978. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Rocky Cove" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . [REDACTED] This King George Island (South Shetland Islands) location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cove Colloquially,
16-414: The term can be used to describe a sheltered bay. Geomorphology describes coves as precipitously walled and rounded cirque -like openings like a valley extending into or down a mountainside, or in a hollow or nook of a cliff or steep mountainside. A cove can also refer to a corner, nook, or cranny, either in a river, road, or wall, especially where the wall meets the floor. An example is Lulworth Cove on
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