Mindya Cove
Location of Tower Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.
Mindya Cove (Bulgarian: залив Миндя, ‘Zaliv Mindya’ \'za-liv 'min-dya\) is a 2.4 km wide cove indenting for 1.5 km the northwest coast of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Entered between Cape Leguillou and Kranevo Point.
The cove is named after the settlement of Mindya in northern Bulgaria.
Location
Mindya Cove is located at 63°33′10″S 59°51′00″W / 63.55278°S 59.85000°WCoordinates: 63°33′10″S 59°51′00″W / 63.55278°S 59.85000°W. German-British mapping in 1996.
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
References
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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