Kavarna Cove ( bg, залив Каварна, zaliv Kavarna, ) is a 2 km wide cove indenting for 1.2 km the south coast of

Livingston Island Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was the first land discovered south of 60 ...

(in the

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) that is entered between

Elephant Point Elephant Point is a small predominantly ice-free promontory projecting 2 km into Bransfield Strait at the south extremity of the west half of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point forms the southwest side ...

and

Bond Point Bond Point is a small ice-free headland on the south coast of western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the northeast side of the entrance to Kavarna Cove. Linzipar Lake is situated at the point's base. The area ...

. It was named after the town of

Kavarna Kavarna ( bg, Каварна ; ro, Cavarna), is a Black Sea coastal town and seaside resort in the Dobruja region of northeastern Bulgaria. It lies northeast of Varna, from Dobrich on the international road E87 and south of the border with Ro ...

in northeastern

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Location

The cove is located at (British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

References

Kavarna Cove.
SCAR

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Kavarna Cove.
Copernix satellite image Coves of Livingston Island {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub

Location

See also

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