Devesil Bight (, ) is the 5.8 km wide embayment indenting for 2.2 km the southeast coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica between Kermen Peninsula and the 2.7 km peninsula ending up in Robert Point. Entered between Edwards Point and Robert Point. Shape enhanced as a result of glacier retreat in the late 20th and early 21st century.

The feature is named after the settlement of Devesilovo in southern Bulgaria.

Devesil Bight

Location

Devesil Bight is centred at . Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Devesil Bight

Map

L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

Devesil Bight

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English) SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

Devesil Bight. Copernix satellite image

Landforms of Robert Island

Bays of Antarctica

Bulgaria and the Antarctic