Clarence Island, Antarctica (6018808983)

Smith Cove ( bg, залив Смит, zaliv Smit, ) is the 1.17 km wide cove indenting for 1.33 km 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 ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

. It is entered north of

Ilyo Point Ilyo Point ( bg, нос Ильо, ‘Nos Ilyo’ \'nos 'i-lyo\ is the narrow rocky point projecting 600 m east-northeastwards from the east coast of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It forms the south side of the entran ...

and south of

Kakrina Point Kakrina Point ( bg, нос Къкрина, ‘Nos Kakrina’ \'nos 'k&-kri-na\) is the rock-tipped point projecting 400 m south-southeastwards from the east coast of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It forms the north si ...

, and has its head fed by

Banari Glacier Banari Glacier ( bg, ледник Банари, lednik Banari, ) is the long and wide glacier on the east side of Ravelin Ridge on Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated north-northeast of Orcho Glacier. It flow ...

. The cove is named after the

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

sealer Thomas Smith who narrated his four seasons in the

Antarctic The Antarctic ( or , American English also or ; commonly ) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau and other ...

in a book published in 1844.T.W. Smith
A Narrative of the Life, Travels and Sufferings of Thomas W. Smith.
Boston: W.C. Hill, 1844. 240 pp.

Location

Smith 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.

Notes

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)

External links

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