Sumer Passage
Sumer Passage | ||
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Connects waters | Bouquet Bay | |
with water | Gerlache Street | |
Separates land mass | Brabant Island | |
of land mass | Davis Island | |
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Geographical location | 64 ° 6 ′ 52 ″ S , 62 ° 6 ′ 50 ″ W | |
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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)