Lazuren Bryag Cove
| Lazuren Bryag Cove | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Coronation Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 37 ′ 50 " S , 46 ° 0 ′ 45" W | |
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| width | 1.5 km | |
| depth | 900 m | |
The Lazuren Bryag Cove ( English ; Bulgarian залив Лазурен бряг saliw Lasuren Brjag ) is a 1.5 km wide and 0.9 km long bay on the southwest coast of Coronation Island in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands . It is located southeast of Return Point and northwest of Cheal Point .
British scientists mapped it in 1963. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2019. It is named after the reefer ship Lasuren Brjag (Bulgarian for Côte d'Azur ) from the company Ocean Fisheries in Burgas , whose fishing fleet from the early 1970s to the operated in the waters around South Georgia , the Kerguelen , the South Orkney Islands and the South Shetland Islands, and the Antarctic Peninsula in the early 1990s .
Web links
- Lazuren Bryag Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)