Slanchev Bryag Cove
| Slanchev Bryag Cove | ||
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| Waters | Orwell Bight | |
| Land mass | Coronation Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 41 ′ 30 ″ S , 45 ° 17 ′ 50 ″ W | |
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| width | 2.05 km | |
| depth | 1.7 km | |
The Slanchev Bryag Cove ( English ; Bulgarian залив Слънчев бряг saliw Slantschew Brjag ) is a 2.05 km wide and 1.7 km long bay on the south coast of Coronation Island in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands . It is east of Saunders Point . The bay is dominated by Mount Sladen to the northeast and the Tophet Bastion to the east .
British scientists mapped it in 1963. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2019. It is named after the refrigerated ship Slantschew Brjag (Bulgarian for Sunny Beach ) owned by Ocean Fisheries in Burgas , whose fishing fleet ran from the early 1970s to the early 1990s operated in the waters around South Georgia , the Kerguelen , the South Orkney Islands and the South Shetland Islands, and the Antarctic Peninsula .
Web links
- Slanchev Bryag Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)