Brashlyan Cove
Location of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Smith Island and Livingston Island.
Brashlyan Cove (Bulgarian: залив Бръшлян, ‘Zaliv Brashlyan’ \'za-liv bra-'shlyan\) is the 1.3 km wide cove on Osmar Strait indenting for 480 m the southeast coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and entered northeast of Dupnitsa Point. Its head is fed by Gramada Glacier.
The cove is named after the settlement of Brashlyan in Southeastern Bulgaria.
Location
Brashlyan Cove is located at 63°02′50″S 62°33′55″W / 63.04722°S 62.56528°WCoordinates: 63°02′50″S 62°33′55″W / 63.04722°S 62.56528°W, which is 9.5 km northeast of Cape James. Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2010.
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Brashlyan Cove. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Smith Island seen from southeast.
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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