Dalchev Cove ( bg, Далчев залив, ‘Dalchev Zaliv’ \'dal-chev 'za-liv\) is the 3.72 km wide cove indenting for 2.45 km the northwest coast of Parker Peninsula on the northeast coast

Anvers Island Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island long, the largest in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was discovered by John Biscoe in 1832 and named in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic ...

in the

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. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anver ...

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. It is the part of

Fournier Bay Fournier Bay () is a bay long and wide, indenting the northeast coast of Anvers Island immediately west of Briggs Peninsula and south of Dralfa Point, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Its head is fed by Rhesus, Thamyris, Kleptuza and ...

entered east of Studena Point, having its head fed by

Altimir Glacier Altimir Glacier ( bg, ледник Алтимир, lednik Altimir, ) is a long and wide glacier draining the north slopes of the Osterrieth Range on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It flows northwards to enter Dalchev Co ...

. The cove is named after the

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sculptor Lyubomir Dalchev (1902-2002).

Location

Dalchev Cove is centred at . British mapping in 1980.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Dalchev Cove.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

Dalchev Cove.
Copernix satellite image Coves of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{AnversIsland-geo-stub