Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Mateev Cove (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mateev Cove (The name as it would appear on a map)
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This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The 650 m wide cove indenting for 290 m the S coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, part of South Bay entered E of Yasen Point. The UK base camp Station P operated at the cove"s head in the 1957/58 summer season. British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009. Named after the Bulgarian physicist Matey Mateev (1940-2010) for his support for the Bulgarian Antarctic programme.
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