Gruev Cove

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Gruev Cove from Bransfield Strait, with Parchevich Ridge on the left and Bogdan Ridge on the right.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Gruev Cove (Gruev Zaliv \'gru-ev 'za-liv\) is the 300 m wide cove indenting for 650 m the east coast of Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands south of Santa Cruz Point and north of Parchevich Ridge. It is surmounted by Bogdan Ridge to the north and Benkovski Nunatak to the west.

The cove is named "after Dame Gruev (1871-1906), a leader of the Bulgarian liberation movement in Macedonia".[1]

Location

Gruev Cove is centred at 62°30′22″S 59°33′46″W / 62.50611°S 59.56278°W / -62.50611; -59.56278Coordinates: 62°30′22″S 59°33′46″W / 62.50611°S 59.56278°W / -62.50611; -59.56278. British mapping in 1968.

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