Tschajka passage

Tschajka passage
Connects waters	Bransfield Street
with water	Belimel Bay
Separates land mass	Trinity Island
of land mass	Spert Island
Data
Geographical location	63 ° 51 '12 "  S , 60 ° 55' 14"  W Coordinates: 63 ° 51 '12 "  S , 60 ° 55' 14"  W
length	1 km
Smallest width	110 m

The Tschajka Passage ( Bulgarian проток Чайка protok Tschajka ) is a 1 km long and 110 m wide strait in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates Spert Island in the west from Trinity Island in the east. The southern entrance is immediately west of Bulnes Point . The vertical cliffs of the Symplegades rise on both sides of the strait.

The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler Tschajka , who had operated in the waters around South Georgia , the Kerguelen , the South Shetland Islands and the South Orkney Islands from the 1970s to the early 1990s .

Web links

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