Baba Tonka Cove ( bg, залив Баба Тонка, zaliv Baba Tonka, ) is the 1.1 km wide cove indenting for 750 m the north coast of Byers Peninsula between

Villard Point Villard Point is a point projecting 500 m into Barclay Bay from Robbery Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the east side of the entrance to Baba Tonka Cove and the west side of the ...

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Varadero Point Varadero Point is a point projecting 620 m into Barclay Bay from Robbery Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the west side of the entrance to Baba Tonka Cove. Dominated by Varadero ...

on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers. The cove is named after the Bulgarian revolutionary and national hero Tonka Obretenova (1812–1893), known as Baba Tonka ("Grandma Tonka").

Location

Baba Tonka Cove is located at . British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1993 and Bulgarian in 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.

References

Baba Tonka Cove.
SCAR

Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...

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basic data
in English)

External links

Baba Tonka Cove.
Copernix satellite image Coves of Livingston Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub