What is the person whom a cove in Antarctica cove is named for?
Langmuir Cove Langmuir Cove ( ) is a cove in the north end of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Irving Langmuir, an American physicist who studied the formation of snow.
Stranger Point Stranger Point is a point forming the southernmost tip of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for the sealer "Stranger" (Captained by Joseph Adams) from Boston, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21 in company with the "O'Cain", operating from nearby Potter Cove.