St. Nicholas Cove
| St. Nicholas Cove | ||
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| Waters | Orwell Bight | |
| Land mass | Coronation Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 42 '0 " S , 45 ° 15' 50" W | |
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| width | 920 m | |
| depth | 800 m | |
The St. Nicholas Cove ( English ; Bulgarian залив Св. Никола saliw Sw [eti] Nikola ) is a 920 m wide and 800 km long bay on the south coast of Coronation Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is towered north-north-west by the Tophet Bastion and north by Mount Sladen .
British scientists mapped it in 1963. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2019. It is named after Saint Nicholas of Myra , namesake of the fishing school in Burgas , whose graduates often worked for the Ocean Fisheries company in Burgas, whose fishing fleet dates from the early 1970s operated in the waters around South Georgia , around the Kerguelen , around the South Orkney Islands and the South Shetland Islands, and around the Antarctic Peninsula until the early 1990s .
Web links
- St. Nicholas Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)