Stoyanov Cove is the 2.6 km wide cove indenting for 1.1 km the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica. Entered between Sandanski Point

Sandanski Point

Sandanski Point is the point forming the north side of the entrance to Stoyanov Cove on the east coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, projecting 600 m into Hero Bay and formed by an offshoot of Oryahovo Heights.The point is named after...

 and Agüero Point

Agüero Point

Agüero Point is a trapezoid-shaped and mostly ice-covered point projecting 900 m east-northeastwards from the east coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula into Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

. Most of the cove's coastline is formed by the terminus

Glacier terminus

A glacier terminus, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating...

 od Urdoviza Glacier

Urdoviza Glacier

Urdoviza Glacier is a glacier bounded by the eastern slopes of Oryahovo Heights on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and draining eastwards into Stoyanov Cove of Hero Bay between Agüero Point and Sandanski Point. The glacier extends 2.8 km in the east-west direction...

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The cove is named after the 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...

n scientist Velichko Stoyanov (1932–1999) for his support for the Bulgarian Antarctic programme.

Location

Stoyanov Cove is located at 62°31′28"S 60°41′55"W. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.

Map

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4