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New Year Cove

bay in the Falkland Islands

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ55625055 ↗
Source-derived summary

New Year Cove is the 1.7 km wide bay indenting for 2.45 km the southeast coast of Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands. It is entered north of Hadassah Point and south of Circum Point and centred at 51°56′30″S 60°54′30″W.

Maps

The Falkland Islands. Scale 1:401280 map. London: Edward Stanford, 1901

Falkland Islands Explorer Map. Scale 1:365000. Ocean Explorer Maps, 2007

Falklands Topographic Map Series. Scale 1:50000, 29 sheets. DOS 453, 1961-1979

Falkland Islands. Scale 1:643000 Map. DOS 906.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “New Year Cove” as bay in the Falkland Islands. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1901, 2007, 1961, 1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Year, Cove and Falkland can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as bay in the Falkland Islands. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q55625055. Authority coordinates are -51.942, -60.908. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1901, 2007, 1961 and 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Year Cove” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.