Apiaria Bight ( bg, italic=yes, залив Апиария, ‘Zaliv Apiaria’ \'za-liv a-pi-'a-ri-ya\) is the 5.7 km wide embayment indenting for 1.7 km the northwest coast of

Pasteur Peninsula Pasteur Peninsula is a broad peninsula long in a north-south direction and ranging from wide between Guyou Bay and Bouquet Bay, forming the north end of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. Its interior is occupied by the nort ...

Brabant Island Brabant Island is the second largest island of the Palmer Archipelago within the British Antarctic Territory, lying between Anvers Island and Liège Island. Brabant Island is long north-south, wide, and rises to in Mount Parry. The interio ...

in the

Palmer Archipelago Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anver ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...

. It is entered northeast of

Metchnikoff Point Metchnikoff Point is a point forming the western extremity of Pasteur Peninsula in northern Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was first charted by the Third French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Jean-Baptis ...

and southwest of Cape Roux, and has

Soatris Island Soatris Island ( bg, остров Соатрис, ostrov Soatris, ) is the rocky island off the northwest coast of Pasteur Peninsula on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, which extends 400 m in east-southeast to west-northwes ...

lying near the southwest side of its entrance.

Eponymy

The bight is named after the ancient

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lett ...

fortified city and Byzantine bishopric of

Apiaria Ryahovo ( bg, Ряхово) is a village in northern Bulgaria, and as Ancient Ap(p)iaria a former bishopric, remaining a Latin Catholic titular see. It is located in the municipality of Slivo Pole in Ruse Province. As of February 2011, it had a p ...

(Appiaria) in

Moesia Inferior Moesia (; Latin: ''Moesia''; el, Μοισία, Moisía) was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River, which included most of the territory of modern eastern Serbia, Kosovo, north-eastern Alban ...

, now in Northeastern

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Location

Apiaria Bight is centred at . * British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

Sources

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Apiaria Bight.
SCAR

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about ...

External links

Apiaria Bight.
Copernix satellite image Brabant-Island

Bays of the Palmer Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{BrabantIsland-geo-stub