Asemus Beach
| Asemus Beach | ||
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| location | Robert Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Mitchell Cove | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 23 '10 " S , 59 ° 39' 25" W | |
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| length | 2.2 km | |
The Asemus Beach (English, Bulgarian бряг Асемус brjag Assemus ) is a snow-free during the Antarctic summer and 2.2 km long beach of Robert Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located on the northwest bank of Mitchell Cove . It is bounded in the southwest by Debelyanov Point , the hilly hinterland of the Alfatar Peninsula in the northwest and Divotino Point in the northeast.
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Chilean 1971, Argentine 1980 and Bulgarian 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the ancient Roman settlement Asemus in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Asemus Beach in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)