Slomer Cove
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Slomer Cove is the 11.2 km wide cove indenting for 5.9 km the northwest coast of Trinity Peninsula
, Antarctic Peninsula
south of Cape Kjellman
and north of Auster Point
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The cove is named after the settlement of Slomer in northern Bulgaria
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Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...
, Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....
south of Cape Kjellman
Cape Kjellman
Cape Kjellman is a cape marking the east side of the entrance to Charcot Bay, on the west side of Trinity Peninsula. First charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Nordenskjold, and named by him probably for Professor Frans Reinhold Kjellman, Swedish botanist....
and north of Auster Point
Auster Point
Auster Point is a headland midway along the east shore of Charcot Bay, Trinity Peninsula. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the Auster aircraft used by British expeditions in this area....
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The cove is named after the settlement of Slomer in northern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
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Location
Slomer Cove is located at 63°46′40"S 59°24′00"W. German-British mapping in 1996.Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.