Varvara Cove ( bg, залив Варвара, zaliv Varvara, ) is the 3.3 km wide cove indenting for 1.9 km the southwest coast of Nelson Island in the

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. Entered southeast of

The Toe The Toe is a point marking the south side of the entrance to Harmony Cove and the north-west side of the entrance to Varvara Cove on the west side of Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands. This descriptive name seems first to appear on a ...

and northwest of Ross Point. The cove is named after the settlement of Varvara in southeastern

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Location

Varvara Cove is centred at . British mapping in 1968.

Maps

South Shetland Islands.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 - W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Varvara Cove.

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

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