Lorna Cove
| Lorna Cove | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Land mass | Trinity Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 41 ′ 50 " S , 60 ° 42 ′ 40" W | |
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| width | 1.12 km | |
| depth | 760 m | |
The Lorna Cove (English; Bulgarian залив Лорна saliw Lorna ) is a 1.12 km wide and 0.76 km long bay on the north coast of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located west of Albatros Point and is towered over by Tower Hill to the southwest .
British scientists mapped them in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler Lorna , which was used to fish in the waters around South Georgia , the Kerguelen , the South Orkney Islands and around from the 1970s to the early 1990s was operating in the South Shetland Islands.
Web links
- Lorna Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)