Vrabcha Cove [SEP] continent
Vrabcha Cove
Vrabcha Cove (, ‘Zaliv Vrabcha’ \'za-liv 'vrab-cha\) is the 900 m wide cove indenting for 1 km the west coast of Heywood Island off the northwest coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
The cove is named after the settlement of Vrabcha in western Bulgaria.
Location.
Vrabcha Cove is located at . Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
Map.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith
coast indented for 1 km by Vrabcha Cove.
Important Bird Area.
Heywood Island has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports one of the largest chinstrap penguin colonies on the Antarctic Peninsula with around 90,000 pairs.
See also.
- List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
External links.
- SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.