Dimitrov Cove is the 6.8 km wide cove indenting for 4.8 km the northwest coast of Velingrad Peninsula

Velingrad Peninsula

Velingrad Peninsula is the ice-covered peninsula projecting 22.5 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Barilari Bay to the northeast and Holtedahl Bay to the southwest, and separated from Biscoe Islands to the northwest by Grandidier...

 on Graham Coast

Graham Coast

Graham Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula, extending 172 km between Cape Bellue to the southwest and Cape Renard to the northeast....

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica, which is entered between Pripek Point

Pripek Point

Pripek Point is the point forming the west side of the entrance to Dimitrov Cove on the northwest coast of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica....

 to the west and Biser Point

Biser Point

Biser Point is the narrow rocky point next north of the terminus of Rusalka Glacier and forming the east side of the entrance to Dimitrov Cove on the northwest coast of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica....

 to the east. Hoek Glacier

Hoek Glacier

Hoek Glacier is a glacier flowing into Dimitrov Cove on the northwest coast of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, southward of Llanquihue Islands. Charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill, 1934-37. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names...

 and Rusalka Glacier

Rusalka Glacier

Rusalka Glacier is the 8 km long and 4.6 km wide glacier on Velingrad Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated northeast of Hoek Glacier...

 flow into the cove, while Camacúa Island is lying at its entrance.

The cove is named after the Bulgarian historian Bozhidar Dimitrov

Bozhidar Dimitrov

Bozhidar Dimitrov Stoyanov is a well-known Bulgarian historian working in the sphere of Medieval Bulgarian history, the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria and the Macedonian Question...

(b. 1945) for his support for the Bulgarian Antarctic programme.

Location

Dimitrov Cove is centred at 65°57′50"S 65°04′30"W. British mapping in 1971.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1971.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.