Kazichene Cove (, ) is a 2.2 km wide cove on the southeast side of Osmar Strait indenting for 1.3 km the northwest coast of

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in the

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. It is south of

Lyutibrod Rocks Lyutibrod Rocks (, ‘Lyutibrodski Skali’ \'lyu-ti-brod-ski ska-'li\) is the chain of rocks off the northwest coast of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands extending 860 m in east-west direction. The feature is named after the settlem ...

and Fernandez Point, and north of

Solnik Point Solnik Point (, ‘Nos Solnik’ \'nos 'sol-nik\) is a rocky point projecting 550 m from the northwest coast of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Forming the south side of the entrance to Kazichene Cove. Situated 4.1 k ...

. The cove is named after the settlement of Kazichene in western

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Location

Kazichene Cove is centred at . British mapping in 2009.

Maps

South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands.
Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Kazichene Cove.

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.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Kazichene Cove.
Copernix satellite image Coves of the South Shetland Islands Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{LowIsland-geo-stub