Emona Anchorage

Emona Anchorage

Emona Anchorage (Zaliv Emona 'za-liv e-'mo-na) is a roughly square embayment forming the head of South Bay, Livingston Island. Emona is the name of a village and, in the version of Emine, a nearby cape on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

Location

The midpoint is located at coord|62|37|36|S|60|22|18|W|.

Details

Deep over 100 m at its central portion NW by N of Spanish Point. Entered between Hespérides Point and a nameless cape lying 3,180 m NW by N of it and 3,040 m NE by E of Ereby Point. Next ENE of the second cape a nameless 710 m wide cove is indenting for 250 m behind Rongel Reef, with a shoal E of that cape, and a small awash islet 550 m due NE of it. Rongel Point forms the ENE side of that cove’s entrance. The remaining NW coast of Emona Anchorage is, with several minor disruptions, a narrow beach under the ice-cap cliff, with Pimpirev Ice Wall running parallelly some 100 m inland. That section of the coast is 2,150 m long, featuring a single minor point lying 3,510 m N of Hespérides Point and 1,970 m WNW of Aleko Rock. An ice sea cave located 870 m ENE of that point and 1 450 m NW of Aleko Rock marks the beach end and the N corner of the bay. The NE coast except for Aleko Rock is formed by a glacier snout, while Bulgarian Beach accounts for most of the SE coast. The Emona Anchorage beaches and drifting sea ice are favoured by a fairly small number of penguins and seals, usually comprising chinstrap, gentoo and Adelie penguins, and Weddell, crabeater, leopard and incidentally fur seals.

Mapping

As a part of South Bay appears on earliest charts of the area. Detailed mapping in 1991 by the Servicio Geográfico del Ejército with bathymetry by the Instituto Hidrogràfico de la Marina, Spain. Glacier retreat from bay waters indicated by a 1991 satellite image and further regression recorded in February 1995. Bulgarian remapping of the modified coastal configuration from a ground survey made during the summer of 1995-96. The 2005 Bulgarian map of Livingston Island indicated continuing glacier retreat on the NE side of the bay.

External links

* [http://www3.pnra.it/SCAR_GAZE SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer] .
* [http://www.mfa.government.bg/uploads/imgs/Livingston/livingston.jpgReference Map]


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