Slavyanka Beach ( bg, бряг Славянка, bryag Slavyanka, ) is the mostly ice-free 2.2 km long beach forming the southwest coast of Gurkovska Cove in eastern

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. It is bounded by Walker Point on the southeast and the

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of Stadium Glacier on the northwest. The feature was formed as a result of glacier retreat in the first decade of 21st century. The beach is “named after the fish canning plant Slavyanka in Burgas, Bulgaria that processed Antarctic fish supplied by fishing vessels of the company

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whose ships operated in the waters of South Georgia,

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, the South Orkney Islands,

and Antarctic Peninsula from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the

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and

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are the pioneers of modern Antarctic

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.”Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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Location

Slavyanka Beach is centred at . British mapping of the area in 1822,1972 and 2009.

Maps

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.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972.
South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and Gibbs Islands.
Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

References

Slavyanka Beach.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

External links

Slavyanka Beach.
Copernix satellite image Beaches of the South Shetland Islands Ocean Fisheries – Burgas Co Bulgaria and the Antarctic Elephant Island {{ElephantIsland-geo-stub