Kiev Peninsula
| Kiev Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 15 ′ S , 63 ° 41 ′ W |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula |
| Waters 1 | Bay of Flanders |
| Waters 2 | Beascochea Bay |
| Waters 3 | Lemaire Channel |
| Waters 4 | Penola Strait |
| width | 35 km |
The Kiev Peninsula ( Bulgarian полуостров Киев poluostrow Kiew , English Kiev Peninsula ) is an oval-shaped, up to 35 km wide and mostly ice-covered peninsula on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It stretches between the Bay of Flanders in the northeast and the Bay of Beascochea in the southwest. To the west, the Lemaire Canal and Penola Strait separate it from the Wilhelm Archipelago . The north coast of the peninsula (east of Cape Renard ) belongs to the Danco coast , the west and south coast to the Graham coast .
A comprehensive survey was carried out in 1976 by British geographers. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the Ukrainian capital Kiev , as a tribute to the nearby Ukrainian Vernadsky station (not on the peninsula, but on Galíndez Island ) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria : Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer (PDF file, short version without descriptions), accessed on December 5, 2018
- ↑ a b Kiev Peninsula in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on December 5, 2018