Shopski Cove (, ) is a 2.6 km wide cove indenting for 1.9 km the southwest coast of

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in the

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, between

Triangle Point Triangle Point is the low ice-free tipped point forming the northwest side of the entrance to Shopski Cove in the south coast of Parvomay Neck linking the northwest and southeast parts of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarct ...

and the westernmost extremity of the moraine spit of Provadiya Hook protecting

Yankee Harbour Yankee Harbour is a small inner harbour entered from Shopski Cove between Glacier Bluff and Spit Point, indenting the south-west side of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is long in west-south-west to east-north-ea ...

. Shape enhanced as a result of

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’s retreat in the late 20th and early 21st century. The area was visited by early 19th century

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operating from Yankee Harbour. The feature is named "after the Shoppe Region in Western

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."Shopski Cove.

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Location

The cove is located at . Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.

Maps

South Shetland Islands.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Sheet W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968. * L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005. * L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.

Notes

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bulgaria), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commis ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Shopski Cove.
Copernix satellite image Coves of Greenwich Island {{GreenwichIsland-geo-stub