Slavyanka Beach ( bg, бряг Славянка, bryag Slavyanka, ) is the mostly ice-free 2.2 km long beach forming the southwest coast of

Gurkovska Cove Gurkovska Cove ( bg, залив Гурковска, ‘Zaliv Gurkovska’ \'za-liv 'gur-kov-ska\) is the 3 km wide cove indenting for 2.5 km the east extremity of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is entered s ...

in eastern Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. It is bounded by

Walker Point Walker Point is a point on the southwest side of the entrance to Gurkovska Cove which lies south-west of Cape Valentine, near the eastern end of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The name appears on Powell's map of 1 ...

on the southeast and the terminus of Stadium Glacier on the northwest. The feature was formed as a result of glacier retreat in the first decade of 21st century. The beach is “named after the fish canning plant Slavyanka in Burgas, Bulgaria that processed Antarctic fish supplied by fishing vessels of the company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas whose ships operated in the waters of

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, Kerguelen, the

South Orkney Islands The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic PeninsulaSouth Shetland Islands and

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany are the pioneers of modern Antarctic fishing industry.”Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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Location

Slavyanka Beach is centred at . British mapping of the area in 1822,1972 and 2009.

Maps

from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972.
South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and Gibbs Islands.
Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009.
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

Slavyanka Beach.
SCAR

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...

External links

Slavyanka Beach.
Copernix satellite image Beaches of the South Shetland Islands Ocean Fisheries – Burgas Co Bulgaria and the Antarctic Elephant Island {{ElephantIsland-geo-stub