Smokinya Cove
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Smokinya Cove is the 3.5 km wide cove on Prince Gustav Channel
indenting for 2.2 km the southeast coast of Trinity Peninsula
in Graham Land
, Antarctica. It is entered north of Azimuth Hill
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The cove is named after the seaside locality of Smokinya in Southeastern Bulgaria.
Prince Gustav Channel
The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James Ross Island...
indenting for 2.2 km the southeast coast of Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...
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. It is entered north of Azimuth Hill
Azimuth Hill
Azimuth Hill is a low rocky outcrop, high, which extends to Prince Gustav Channel just south of the mouth of Russell East Glacier, Trinity Peninsula. So named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey following a 1946 survey because a sun azimuth was obtained from a cairn built near the east...
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The cove is named after the seaside locality of Smokinya in Southeastern Bulgaria.
Location
Smokinya Cove is centred at 63°44′00"S 58°15′40"W. German-British mapping in 1996.Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.