Gurkovska Cove

Gurkovska Cove (Bulgarian: 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 southwest of Cape Valentine and northeast of Walker Point. Its southwest side is occupied by Slavyanka Beach. The feature was formed as a result of the retreat of The Stadium (a glacier feeding the cove's head) in the first decade of 21st century.

Location of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands

The cove is named after Yuliya Gurkovska (1945–2001), participant in the Second Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition 1993/94 (while serving as chief of staff of the Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev at that time[1]), for her support for the Bulgarian Antarctic programme. Gurkovska was an experienced explorer who sailed several times together with her husband Doncho Papazov in the course of a plankton research programme carried out onboard various lifeboats in the Black Sea, the Atlantic and the Pacific. Eventually, accompanied by their daughter Yana (then 6 years old), they circumnavigated the world in the yacht Tivia in 1979–1981.[2]

Location

Gurkovska Cove is centred at 61°07′40″S 54°42′00″W. British mapping of the area in 1822,1972 and 2009.

Maps

Map of Elephant Island

Notes

  1. Yulia Gourkovska (1945-2001). Centre for Liberal Strategies, 2009
  2. Plankton V: A cruise around the world with the yacht Tivia. Strashimir Dimitrov Geological Institute. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2005

References


This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.


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