Belene Cove is the 550 m wide cove indenting for 600 m the northwest coast of Ray Promontory

Ray Promontory

Ray Promontory is the 7 km long and 2.8 km wide promontory lying between Barclay Bay and the New Plymouth sound, and forming the northwest part of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica ending up in Start Point and Essex Point...

, part of Svishtov Cove

Svishtov Cove

Svishtov Cove is a 2 km wide cove indenting for 1.5 km the northwest extremity of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 in Byers Peninsula

Byers Peninsula

Byers Peninsula is a mainly ice-free peninsula forming the west end of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. It occupies , and includes the small freshwater Basalt Lake. The area was visited by early 19th century American and British sealers who came almost exclusively from New England,...

, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica. The cove is entered between Isbul Point

Isbul Point

Isbul Point is a narrow rocky point projecting 500 m from the coast of Ray Promontory into Svishtov Cove in the northwest extremity of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 600 m east of Start Point, 1.2 km west-southwest of Kardzhali...

 and Start Point

Start Point, Livingston Island

Start Point is a point marking the northwest end of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the southwest side of the entrance to Svishtov Cove and the northeast side of the entrance to the New Plymouth bay...

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The feature is named after the town of Belene

Belene

Belene is a town in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Belene Municipality. The town is situated on the right bank of the Danube river, close to the town of Svishtov...

 in
northern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Location

Belene Cove is located at 62°35′12"S 61°12′25"W. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2009.

Map

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4