Swilengrad peninsula
| Swilengrad peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 52 ′ 15 ″ S , 59 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ W | |
| location | Davis Coast , Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Waters 1 | Lanchester Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Jordanoff Bay | |
| length | 5.2 km | |
| width | 5.6 km | |
The Svilengrad Peninsula ( Bulgarian полуостров Свиленград poluostrow Svilengrad ) is a 5.2 km long and 5.6 km wide peninsula on the Davis Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Orléans Strait , it separates Lanchester Bay in the southwest from Jordanoff Bay in the northeast. In the north-west it ends at Wennersgaard Point , and the northern part of the Korten Ridge rises on it.
German and British scientists mapped it together in 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2016 after the town of Swilengrad in southern Bulgaria , one of the locations of the Bulgarian Air Force during the First Balkan War (1912-1913).
Web links
- Svilengrad Peninsula in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)