Klimash Passage (, ‘Protok Klimash’ \'pro-tok 'kli-mash\) is the 1.9 km wide passage in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the n ...

between

Table Island Table Island is an uninhabited island within the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. It lies in Norwegian Bay, north of Devon Island, and is also south Cornwall Island, separated by Belcher Channel. Ekins Island is a small islet ab ...

and Bowler Rocks on the northwest and

Morris Rock Morris Rock is a rock outcropping that rises to in the northwest extremity of the Aitcho group, English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers. The feature is named after Alfred M ...

and

Chaos Reef Chaos Reef is an area of breakers and turbulent water created by a series of underwater shoals in the north extremity of the Aitcho Islands group on the west side of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited ...

Aitcho Islands The Aitcho Islands (''‘Aitcho’'' standing for ''‘H.O.’'' i.e. ''‘Hydrographic Office’'') are a group of minor islands on the west side of the north entrance to English Strait separating Greenwich Island and Robert Island in the South ...

to the SE. The area was visited by early 19th century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 1800 ...

. The passage is named after the settlement of Klimash in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Klimash Passage is located at . British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Maps

Livingston Island to King George Island.
Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968. * L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. (Second edition 2010, )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bulgaria), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commis ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Klimash Passage.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

Klimash Passage.
Copernix satellite image Bodies of water of Greenwich Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic Straits of the South Shetland Islands {{GreenwichIsland-geo-stub