Maleshevo Cove

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Maleshevo Cove (Bulgarian: залив Малешево, ‘Zaliv Maleshevo’ \'za-liv ma-'le-she-vo\) is a 2.5 km wide cove indenting for 1.1 km the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Entered between Lukovit Point and Siddins Point.

The cove is named after the Maleshevo region in southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Maleshevo Cove is located at 62°33′36″S 60°26′36″W / 62.56000°S 60.44333°W / -62.56000; -60.44333Coordinates: 62°33′36″S 60°26′36″W / 62.56000°S 60.44333°W / -62.56000; -60.44333. Spanish mapping in 1991 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.

Map

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

References

Maleshevo Cove. 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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