Glogowo Passage

Glogowo Passage
Connects waters	Drake Street
with water	McFarlane Strait
Separates land mass	Zverino Island
of land mass	Cave Island
Data
Geographical location	62 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 60 ° 3 ′ 59 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 60 ° 3 ′ 59 ″  W
Smallest width	110 m

The Glogowo Passage ( Bulgarian проток Глогово protok Glogowo ) is a 110 m wide strait off the northwestern extension of Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the group of the Meade Islands , it separates Zverino Island in the west-southwest from Cave Island in the east-northeast.

British scientists mapped it in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Glogowo in northern Bulgaria .

Web links

• Glogovo passage in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)