Chavei Cove

Chavei Cove (, ‘Zaliv Chavei’ \'za-liv cha-'ve-i\) is the 2.2 km wide cove indenting for 900 m the southeast coast of Rozhen Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, entered east of Gela Point. It is formed as a result of the retreat of Prespa Glacier in the early 21st century.

The feature is named after the settlement of Chavei in northern Bulgaria.

Location

Chavei Cove is located at . Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
• L.L. Ivanov. . Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

References

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

External links

• Chavei Cove. Copernix satellite image