Transmarisca Bay
| Transmarisca Bay | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Krogh Island in the Biscoe Islands archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 15 ′ 10 ″ S , 67 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | 4.3 km | |
| depth | 3.2 km | |
The Transmarisca Bay (English; Bulgarian залив Трансмариска saliw Transmariska ) is a 4.3 km wide and 3.2 km long bay on the north coast of Krogh Island in the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is east of Edholm Point and west of Kuvikal Point .
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the ancient Roman city of Transmarisca in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Transmarisca Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)