Argonavt Cove
| Argonavt Cove | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Land mass | Nelson Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| width | 1.85 km | |
| depth | 950 m | |
The Argonavt Cove (English; Bulgarian залив Аргонавт saliw Argonawt ) is a 1.85 km wide and 950 m long bay on the north coast of Nelson Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is east of Retamales Point and west of Baklan Point .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the Bulgarian trawler Argonawt , who worked under Captain Kosjo Angelow from December 1978 to July 1979 for fishing and limnological studies in the waters around South Georgia and the South Orkney Islands .
Web links
- Argonavt Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)