Gerlovo Beach
| Gerlovo Beach | ||
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Shirreff Cove | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 29 '20 " S , 60 ° 48' 55" W | |
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| length | 2 km | |
The Gerlovo Beach ( Bulgarian Герловски бряг Gerlowski Brjag ) is a 2 km long beach on the northwest coast of the John Paul II Peninsula in the north of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the shores of Shirreff Cove , it extends south and northeast of Mercury Bluff and lies south and west across from San Telmo Island .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the Gerlovo region in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Gerlovo Beach in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)