Breste Cove
Location of Tower Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.
Breste Cove (Bulgarian: залив Бресте, ‘Zaliv Breste’ \'za-liv bre-'ste\) is the 700 m wide cove indenting for 850 m the east coast of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica situated south of Harmanli Cove. Entered north of Castillo Point and south of Cape Dumoutier. The cove is named after the settlement of Breste in Northern Bulgaria.
Location
Breste Cove is located at 63°35′22″S 59°46′55″W / 63.58944°S 59.78194°WCoordinates: 63°35′22″S 59°46′55″W / 63.58944°S 59.78194°W. German-British mapping in 1996.
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
References
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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