Zlatni Pyasatsi Cove
| Zlatni Pyasatsi Cove | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Land mass | Elephant Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 61 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 55 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | 1.4 km | |
| depth | 1.1 km | |
The Zlatni Pyasatsi Cove ( English ; Bulgarian залив Златни пясъци saliw Slatni Pjasazi ) is a 1.4 km wide and 1.1 km long bay on the southeast coast of Elephant Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . Its center is 3.5 km north-northeast of Cape Lookout and its entrance is limited to the northeast by Trifonov Point .
The bay was exposed by glacier retreat at the end of the 20th century. British Scientists mapped 2009. The Bulgarian Antarctic Place-names Commission named it 2019. It is named after the refrigerator ship Golden Sands (Bulgarian for Gold beach ) by the company Ocean Fisheries in Burgas , whose fishing fleet of the early 1970's 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
- Zlatni Pyasatsi Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)