Yarebitsa Cove (Bulgarian: залив Яребица, ‘Zaliv Yarebitsa’ \'za-liv ya-'re-bi-tsa\) is the 900 m wide cove on Osmar Strait. It is indenting for 570 m off the southeast coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and enters northeast of Skalina Point and southwest of Ivan Asen Point. Its head is fed by Armira Glacier.
The cove is named after the settlements of Yarebitsa in Northeastern and Southern Bulgaria.
Location
editYarebitsa Cove is located at 63°01′50″S 62°31′55″W / 63.03056°S 62.53194°W, which is 12 km northeast of Cape James. Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.
Maps
edit- Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c. from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4)
- South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands. Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009.
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
References
edit- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Yarebitsa Cove. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
edit- Yarebitsa Cove. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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