Vrabcha Cove (Bulgarian: залив Врабча, romanized: zaliv Vrabcha, IPA: [ˈzaliv ˈvrapt͡ʃɐ]) is the 900 m wide cove indenting for 1 km the west coast of Heywood Island off the northwest coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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The cove is named after the settlement of Vrabcha in western Bulgaria.
Location
editVrabcha Cove is located at 62°19′16″S 59°41′27″W / 62.32111°S 59.69083°W. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
Map
edit- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
edit- Vrabcha Cove. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
edit- Vrabcha Cove. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.