Breste Cove
| Breste Cove | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Land mass | Tower Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 35 '22 " S , 59 ° 46' 55" W | |
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| width | 700 m | |
| depth | 850 m | |
The Breste Cove (English; Bulgarian залив Бресте saliw Breste ) is a 850 m long and 700 m wide bay on the east coast of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is north of Castillo Point and south of Cape Dumoutier .
German and British scientists mapped it together in 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the town of Breste in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Breste Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)