Kruni Cove
| Kruni Cove | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Land mass | Robert Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 23 '34 " S , 59 ° 21' 20" W | |
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| width | 900 m | |
| depth | 1.15 km | |
The Kruni Cove (English; Bulgarian залив Круни saliw Kruni ) is a 1.15 km long and 0.9 km wide bay on the east coast of Robert Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between Kitchen Point in the north and Galiche Rock and Somovit Point in the south.
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the Thracian city of Kruni in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Kruni Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)