Mihaylovski Cove

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Mihaylovski Cove
View from Lyaskovets Peak across South Bay to the mouth of the Kamchia Glacier and Mihaylovski Cove (left of center)

View from Lyaskovets Peak across South Bay to the mouth of the Kamchia Glacier and Mihaylovski Cove (left of center)

Waters South Bay
Land mass Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 62 ° 38 ′ 10 ″  S , 60 ° 31 ′ 10 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 38 ′ 10 ″  S , 60 ° 31 ′ 10 ″  W
Mihaylovski Cove (South Shetland Islands)
Mihaylovski Cove
width 700 m
depth 400 m
Tributaries Kamchia glacier

The Mihaylovski Cove (English; Bulgarian залив Михайловски saliw Michailowski ) is a 5 km wide and 1.3 km long bay on the northwest bank of the South Bay in the south of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located west of Ereby Point and east of Lukovo Point . The Kamchia Glacier flows into its head end .

Bulgarian scientists mapped them in 2005, 2009 and 2017. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2017 after the brothers Petar Michailowski, who worked in several campaigns as a physicist at the St. Kliment-Ohridski Station , and Christo Michailowski, the worked as an engineer for the Bulgarian Antarctic Program from 2015.

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