Shumskiy Cove is a cove in southern Hanusse Bay

Hanusse Bay

Hanusse Bay is a broad bay, 20 miles long in a general north-south direction, lying between the northern portions of Adelaide Island and Arrowsmith Peninsula. Liard Island lies in its northern portion. It was discovered and first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, under Charcot,...

 indenting the northwest side of Arrowsmith Peninsula

Arrowsmith Peninsula

Arrowsmith Peninsula is a cape about long on the west coast of Graham Land, west of Forel Glacier, Sharp Glacier and Lallemand Fjord, and northwest of Bourgeois Fjord, with Hanusse Bay lying to the northwest. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955-58 and named for...

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from surveys and air photos, 1956-59. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Petr A. Shumskiy, Russian glaciologist, author in 1955 of an important publication on the petrology of ice.