Ivaylo Cove is the 500 m wide cove indenting for 900 m the east coast of Snow Island

Snow Island (South Shetland Islands)

Snow Island or Isla Nevada is a completely ice-covered island, in size, lying southwest of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Surface area...

 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. Bounded by the two arms of the small Hall Peninsula

Hall Peninsula, Snow Island

Hall Peninsula is a small ice-free peninsula on the southeast coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is scissors shaped with its north and south arms extending 800 m and 750 m respectively, with Ivaylo Cove lying in between...

, the south one extended by a chain of rocks.

The cove is named after Czar Ivaylo of Bulgaria

Ivaylo of Bulgaria

Ivaylo, also spelled Ivailo, , nicknamed Bardokva or Lakhanas in Greek, was a rebel leader and emperor of Bulgaria. In 1277, he spearheaded a peasant uprising, and forced the nobles to accept him as emperor...

, 1277-1279.

Location

Ivaylo Cove is located at 62°46′14"S 61°14′46"W. British mapping in 1968, 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