Prisoe Cove is the 3.7 km wide cove indenting for 1.75 km the north coast of 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. Entered between Agüero Point

Agüero Point

Agüero Point is a trapezoid-shaped and mostly ice-covered point projecting 900 m east-northeastwards from the east coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula into Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 and Avitohol Point

Avitohol Point

Avitohol Point is a point on the north coast of Livingston Island, Antarctica projecting 1.15 km into Hero Bay to form the west side of the entrance to Skravena Cove and the southeast side of the entrance to Prisoe Cove...

. Most of the cove's coastline is formed by the termini

Glacier terminus

A glacier terminus, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating...

 of Berkovitsa Glacier

Berkovitsa Glacier

Berkovitsa Glacier is a glacier on Livingston Island, Antarctica. It is bounded by the southeastern slopes of Oryahovo Heights and the northwestern slopes of Snow Peak...

 and Medven Glacier

Medven Glacier

Medven Glacier is a 2.5 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier bounded by the east slopes of Oryahovo Heights on Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and draining eastwards into Prisoe Cove, Hero Bay between Remetalk Point and Agüero Point.The...

 separated by Remetalk Point

Remetalk Point

Remetalk Point , is a point on the east coast of the Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica formed by an offshoot of Oryahovo Heights...

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The cove is named after the settlement of Prisoeto 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

Prisoe Cove is located at 62°33′25"S 60°40′00"W. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 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