Yarebitsa Cove

Location of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Smith Island.

Yarebitsa Cove (Bulgarian: залив Яребица, ‘Zaliv Yarebitsa’ \'za-liv ya-'re-bi-tsa\) is the 900 m wide cove on Osmar Strait indenting for 570 m the southeast coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and entered northeast of Skalina Point and southwest of Ivan Asen Point. Its head is fed by Armira Glacier.

The cove is named after the settlements of Yarebitsa in Northeastern and Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Yarebitsa Cove is located at 63°01′50″S 62°31′55″W / 63.03056°S 62.53194°W / -63.03056; -62.53194Coordinates: 63°01′50″S 62°31′55″W / 63.03056°S 62.53194°W / -63.03056; -62.53194, which is 12 km northeast of Cape James. Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2010.

Maps

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
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

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

Smith Island seen from southeast.

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

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