Clarence Island, Antarctica (6018808983)

Kutela Cove ( bg, залив Кутела, ‘Zaliv Kutela’ \'za-liv ku-'te-la\) is the 330 m wide cove indenting for 750 m the east coast of Clarence 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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. It is entered just south of

Cape Lloyd Cape Lloyd () is a cape which forms the north end of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, on the north side of the entrance to Kutela Cove. The name "Lloyd's Promontory" appears on charts of the 1821–25 period, but in ...

. The cove is named after the settlement of Kutela in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Kutela Cove is centred at . British mapping in 1972 and 2009.

Maps

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.

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)
Kutela Cove.

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External links

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