Mindya Cove

Location of Tower Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Mindya Cove (Bulgarian: залив Миндя, ‘Zaliv Mindya’ \'za-liv 'min-dya\) is a 2.4 km wide cove indenting for 1.5 km the northwest coast of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Entered between Cape Leguillou and Kranevo Point.

The cove is named after the settlement of Mindya in northern Bulgaria.

Location

Mindya Cove is located at 63°33′10″S 59°51′00″W / 63.55278°S 59.85000°W / -63.55278; -59.85000Coordinates: 63°33′10″S 59°51′00″W / 63.55278°S 59.85000°W / -63.55278; -59.85000. 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

Mindya 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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