Hisarya Cove
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 Map of Smith Island with Hisarya Cove (bottom right) |
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| Waters | Osmar Strait | |
| Land mass | Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 3 ′ 31 ″ S , 62 ° 35 ′ 18 ″ W | |
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| width | 950 m | |
| depth | 500 m | |
| Tributaries | Letnitsa Glacier | |
The Hisarya Cove (English; Bulgarian залив Хисаря saliw Chisarja ) is a 0.95 km wide and 0.5 km long bay on the southeast coast of Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located southwest of Dupnitsa Point and 7.3 km northeast of Cape James .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the town of Chisarja in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Hisarya Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)