Varna Peninsula
| Varna Peninsula | ||
 View from Half Moon Island to the Varna Peninsula |
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| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 30 '55 " S , 60 ° 9' 45" W | |
| location | Livingston Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters 1 | Hero Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Moon Bay , McFarlane Strait | |
The Varna Peninsula ( Bulgarian полуостров Варна poluostrow Warna ) is a 12 km long and 9 km wide peninsula of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In a southwest-northeast orientation, it separates Hero Bay in the northwest from Moon Bay in the southeast and McFarlane Strait in the northeast. On its northeast coast are the Lister Cove and the Dragon Cove . The Inott Point and Williams Point form the eastern and northern reaches of the peninsula.
British scientists mapped it in 1968. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 1997 after the port city of Varna in eastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Varna Peninsula in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)