Mugla passage

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Mugla passage
View of Half Moon Island in Moon Bay with the Mugla Passage (right) and Greenwich Island (background)
View of Half Moon Island in Moon Bay with the Mugla Passage (right) and Greenwich Island (background)
Connects waters McFarlane Strait
with water Moon Bay
Separates land mass Half Moon Island
of land mass Livingston Island
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Geographical location 62 ° 36 '15 "  S , 59 ° 54' 20"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 36 '15 "  S , 59 ° 54' 20"  W.
Mugla Passage (South Shetland Islands)
Mugla passage
Smallest width 1.35 km

The Mugla Passage ( Bulgarian проток Мугла protok Mugla ) is a 1.35 km wide strait in the Moon Bay of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It separates the north side of the Burgas Peninsula including the Ihtiman Hook from the offshore island Half Moon Island . It connects Moon Bay with McFarlane Strait .

Bulgarian scientists mapped in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the village of Mugla in southern Bulgaria .

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