Vrabcha Cove
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.
Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
The cove is named after the settlement of Vrabcha in western Bulgaria.
Location
Vrabcha Cove is located at 62°19′16″S 59°41′27″W. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
Map
- 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
- Vrabcha Cove. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
- Vrabcha 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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