Burgas peninsula
| Burgas peninsula | ||
 View from Bransfield Strait to the Burgas Peninsula |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ W | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands , Antarctica | |
| Waters 1 | Bransfield Street | |
| Waters 2 | Moon Bay , Bruix Cove | |
 Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Burgas Peninsula |
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The Burgas Peninsula ( Bulgarian полуостров Бургас poluostrow Burgas ) is a 10.5 km long peninsula of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It forms the southeastern branch of the island and extends in an east-northeast direction to Renier Point . It is bounded to the north by Bruix Cove and Moon Bay , to the south-southeast by the Bransfield Strait . The peninsula is dominated by the Delchev Ridge of the Tangra Mountains .
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Argentine in 1980. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named the peninsula in 2002 after the city of Burgas in eastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Burgas Peninsula in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)