Breste Cove
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Breste Cove is the 700 m wide cove indenting for 850 m the east coast of Tower Island
in the Palmer Archipelago
, Antarctica situated south of Harmanli Cove
. Entered north of Castillo Point
and south of Cape Dumoutier
.
The cove is named after the settlement of Breste in Northern Bulgaria.
Tower Island
Tower Island is an Antarctic island long and high, lying northeast of Trinity Island and marking the northeast extent of Palmer Archipelago...
in the Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula....
, Antarctica situated south of Harmanli Cove
Harmanli Cove
Harmanli Cove is a 1.1 km wide cove indenting for 1.1 km the east coast of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, north of Breste Cove. Entered north of Cape Dumoutier.The cove is named after the town of Harmanli in southeastern Bulgaria....
. Entered north of Castillo Point
Castillo Point
Castillo Point is an ice-covered headland which marks the east side of the terminus of Land Glacier on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959–65, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic...
and south of Cape Dumoutier
Cape Dumoutier
Cape Dumoutier is a point which forms the east tip of Tower Island, at the northeast end of Palmer Archipelago. Named by the French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, 1837–40, for Pierre Dumoutier, a surgeon with the expedition....
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The cove is named after the settlement of Breste in Northern Bulgaria.
Location
Breste Cove is located at 63°35′22"S 59°46′55"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.