Nikolov Cove ( bg, Николов залив, ‘Nikolov Zaliv’ \ni-'ko-lov 'za-liv\) is the 950 m wide cove on

Boyd Strait Boyd Strait is the wide strait lying between Snow Island and Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and linking Drake Passage and the Bransfield Strait. The strait was named in 1823 by a British expedition under James Weddell ...

indenting for 500 m the southeast coast of Smith Island in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

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, and entered northeast of

Velikan Point Velikan Point ( bg, нос Великан, ‘Nos Velikan’ \'nos ve-li-'kan\) is the ice-covered point on the southwest side of the entrance to Nikolov Cove on the southeast coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The ...

and southwest of Razdel Point. Its head is fed by

Ovech Glacier Ovech Glacier ( bg, ледник Овеч, lednik Ovech, ; ) is a 3.5 km long glacier on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands draining the southeast slopes of Imeon Range southeast of Drinov Peak and east of Popovo Saddle and Sevlievski ...

. The cove is named after

Todor Nikolov Todor Krastev ( bg, Тодор Кръстев; 1 June 1945 – 9 May 2000) was a Bulgarian footballer. He was born in Stara Zagora. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CD ...

for his support for the First Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition.

Location

Nikolov Cove is located at , which is 12 km southwest of Cape Smith. Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2010.

Maps

Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c.
from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands.
Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.

References

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)
Nikolov Cove.
SCAR

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External links

Nikolov Cove.
Copernix satellite image Smith-Cliff-Frohlich

Bulgaria and the Antarctic Coves of Smith Island (South Shetland Islands) {{SmithIsland-geo-stub