
Chavdar Peninsula ( bg, полуостров Чавдар, poluostrov Chavdar, ) is a 10-km wide peninsula projecting 13 km in northwest direction from
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee a ...
on the
Antarctic Peninsula
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in
Antarctica
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.
It is bounded by
Curtiss Bay to the northeast,
Hughes Bay
Hughes Bay is a bay lying between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is wide and lies south of Chavdar Peninsula and north of Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula, indenting the Danco Coast on the west ...
to the southwest and
Gerlache Strait to the northwest. Its west extremity
Cape Sterneck
Cape Sterneck () is a bold, black cliff on a projecting point forming the west extremity of Chavdar Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated on the north side of the entrance to Hughes Bay and the west side of the e ...
separates
Danco Coast
The Danco Coast () is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it ...
to the southwest and
Davis Coast
Davis Coast () is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made ...
to the northeast. The interior of the peninsula is partly occupied by the westerly portion of
Kaliva Range.
The feature is named for the 16th-century
Bulgarian rebel leader
Chavdar Voyvoda.
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SCAR
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.
Location
Chavdar Peninsula is centred at .
British mapping in 1978.
Maps
* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3198. DOS 610 – W 64 60. Tolworth, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
Notes
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
Chavdar Peninsula.SCAR
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
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External links
Chavdar Peninsula.Copernix satellite image
Peninsulas of Graham Land
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Danco Coast
Davis Coast
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