Mikre Beach
| Mikre Beach | ||
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| location | Snow Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 50 ′ 15 ″ S , 61 ° 24 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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| length | 2.2 km | |
The Mikre Beach (English; Bulgarian Микренски бряг Mikrenski brjag ) is a 2.2 km long and in the Antarctic summer unsnowled beach on the southeast coast of Snow Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between Cape Conway in the southwest, the ice cap of the interior of the island in the northwest and Pazardzhik Point in the northeast.
Bulgarian scientists mapped the beach in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the village of Mikre in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Mikre Beach in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)