Argonavt Cove (, ‘Zaliv Argonavt’ \'za-liv ar-go-'navt\) is the 1.85 km wide cove indenting for 950 m the north coast of Nelson Island in the

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. It is entered east of Retamales Point and west of Baklan Point. The cove is named after the ocean fishing trawler ''Agonavt'' of the Bulgarian company

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that operated in Antarctic waters off

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and the

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s undertook

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in the process. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the

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and

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are the pioneers of modern Antarctic

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.L. Ivanov
History of Bulgarian Polar Research: 30 years Bulgarian Antarctic expeditions.
Bulgarian Antarctic Institute, May 2020. 6 pp.

Location

Argonavt Cove is centred at . British mapping in 1968.

Maps

South Shetland Islands.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 - W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

References

Argonavt Cove.

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Argonavt Cove.
Copernix satellite image Coves of the South Shetland Islands Ocean Fisheries – Burgas Co Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{NelsonIsland-geo-stub