Zornitsa Cove

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

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

Zornitsa Cove (Bulgarian: залив Зорница, ‘Zaliv Zornitsa’ \'za-liv zor-'ni-tsa\) is the 7 km wide cove indenting for 3.1 km the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Entered between Rowe Point and Scesa Point on the west side of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

The cove is named after the settlements of Zornitsa in southeastern, northeastern and southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Zornitsa Cove is located at 62°34′10″S 60°50′50″W / 62.56944°S 60.84722°W / -62.56944; -60.84722Coordinates: 62°34′10″S 60°50′50″W / 62.56944°S 60.84722°W / -62.56944; -60.84722. British mapping in 1968, Spanish 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

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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