Hvoyna Cove

Hvoyna Cove (Bulgarian: залив Хвойна, ‘Zaliv Hvoyna’ \'za-liv 'hvoy-na\) is the 1.7 km wide cove indenting for 1 km Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is part of Jordanoff Bay entered east of Wennersgaard Point and west of Kamenar Point. The cove is named after the settlement of Hvoyna in Southern Bulgaria.

Location of Davis Coast.

Location

Hvoyna Cove is centred at 63°51′00″S 59°55′20″W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Hvoyna Cove. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

External links

Hvoyna 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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