Shopski Cove
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 View from Livingston Island across McFarlane Strait to Shopski Cove |
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| Waters | McFarlane Strait | |
| Land mass | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 48 ′ 41 ″ W | |
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| width | 2.6 km | |
| depth | 1.5 km | |
| Tributaries | Bravo glacier | |
The Shopski Cove (English; Bulgarian Шопски залив Schopski saliw ) is a 2.6 km wide and 1.5 km long bay on the southwest coast of Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between the Triangle Point and the Spit Point of the Provadiya Hook .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after the Schopluk region in the western border area of Bulgaria .
Web links
- Shopski Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)