Ivan Asen Cove
| Ivan Asen Cove | ||
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 Map of Smith Island with Ivan Asen Cove (center right) |
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| Waters | Osmar Strait | |
| Land mass | Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 1 ′ 20 ″ S , 62 ° 31 ′ 20 ″ W | |
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| width | 1.16 km | |
| depth | 800 m | |
| Tributaries | Dragoman Glacier , Landreth Glacier | |
The Ivan Asen Cove (English; Bulgarian залив Иван Асен saliw Iwan Assen ) is a 1.16 km wide and 0.8 km long bay on the southeast coast of Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located northeast of Ivan Asen Point and 13 km northeast of Cape James .
Bulgarian scientists mapped them in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2015 based on the name of the headland of the same name . Its namesake is Iwan Assen II († 1241), from 1218 until his death Tsar of the Second Bulgarian Empire .
Web links
- Ivan Asen Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)