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Buena Nueva Cove

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Location of Hurd Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island.

Buena Nueva Cove is a small open cove, 900 m wide and indenting for 200 m the northwest coast of False Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica southeast of MacGregor Peaks and east of Castro Peak on Hurd Peninsula. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The feature is named after the ship Buena Nueva in which the Spanish navigator Gabriel de Castilla made his voyage south of Drake Passage in 1603.

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