Teshel Cove ( bg, залив Тешел, ‘Zaliv Teshel’ \'za-liv 'tr-shel\) is the 1.4 km wide cove indenting for 1.6 km the west coast of

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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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. Situated north of

Malina Cove Malina Cove ( bg, залив Малина, zaliv Malina, ) is the 1.65 km wide cove indenting for 1.25 km the west coast of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is entered south of Jameson Point and north of Ugorele ...

and south by west of Kazichene Cove, 8.3 km north of

Cape Garry Cape Garry is a cape forming the south-western extremity of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was charted and named by a British expedition under Henry Foster, 1828–31, and was more accurately mapped by the Falkland Is ...

and 6.7 km south by west of

Cape Wallace Cape Wallace is the cape marking the northern extremity of Limets Peninsula and the north-west end of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Though the origin of the name Cape Wallace is unknown, it has appeared on charts for ov ...

. The cove is named after the settlement of Teshel in southern

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Location

Teshel Cove is centred at . British mapping in 2009.

Maps

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.

References

Teshel Cove.

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.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

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