Sumer Passage

Sumer Passage
Connects waters	Bouquet Bay
with water	Gerlache Street
Separates land mass	Brabant Island
of land mass	Davis Island
Data
Geographical location	64 ° 6 ′ 52 ″  S , 62 ° 6 ′ 50 ″  W Coordinates: 64 ° 6 ′ 52 ″  S , 62 ° 6 ′ 50 ″  W
Smallest width	970 m

The Sumer Passage ( Bulgarian проток Сумер protok Sumer ) is a 970 m wide strait in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Davis Island in the north and the Albena Peninsula of the Brabant Island in the south and connects Bouquet Bay with the Gerlache Strait .

British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Sumer in northwestern Bulgaria .

Web links

• Sumer Passage in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)