Barutin Cove ( bg, text=залив Барутин, italic=no, ‘Zaliv Barutin’ \'za-liv 'ba-ru-tin\) is the 2.05 km wide cove indenting for 1.03 km the southwest coast of Snow Island in the

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. It is entered north of Monroe Point and south of Vokil Point. The cove's shape is enhanced as a result of glacier retreat in the late 20th and early 21st century. The feature is named after the settlement of

Barutin Barutin ( bg, Барутин) is a village in southwestern Bulgaria. It is located in the municipality of Dospat, Smolyan Province. Geography The village of Barutin is located in the Western Rhodope Mountains. It is situated in the Chech re ...

in southern

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Location

Barutin Cove is located at .

n mapping in 2009.

Maps

* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. (Updated second edition 2010. )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Barutin Cove.

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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 ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Barutin Cove.
Copernix satellite image Coves of the South Shetland Islands Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{SnowIsland-geo-stub