Mikre Beach
Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Mikre Beach (Bulgarian: Микренски бряг, ‘Mikrenski Bryag’ \'mi-kren-ski 'bryag\) is the beach extending 2.2 km on the southeast coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is bounded by Cape Conway to the southwest, the island’s ice cap to the northwest and Pazardzhik Point to the northeast, and is snow-free in summer.
The beach is named after the settlement of Mikre in Northern Bulgaria.
Location
Mikre Beach is located at 62°50′15″S 61°24′30″W / 62.83750°S 61.40833°WCoordinates: 62°50′15″S 61°24′30″W / 62.83750°S 61.40833°W. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4 (Updated second edition 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5)
References
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, November 23, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.