Papazov Passage ( bg, Папазов проток, Papazov protok, ) is the 4.5 km long and 1 km wide passage between Krogh Island on the east and DuBois Island on the west in Biscoe Islands,

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and Bona Mansio Island lie in the eastern part of the passage.Papazov Passage.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The feature is named after the

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oceanographer and seaman

Doncho Papazov Doncho Papazov ( bg, Дончо Папазов) (born February 21, 1939 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian oceanographer, adventurer and journalist. He is most famous for several marine voyages of increasing difficulty. Personal life Doncho Papaz ...

, who undertook several lifeboat and yacht expeditions including a 164-day single-handed non-stop

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of Antarctica by way of the ‘Impossible route’ below 40th parallel south and

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in 1988, and an around-the-world voyage together with his wife Yuliya Gurkovska and their daughter Yana, then 6, in 1979–81.

Location

Papazov Passage is centred at . British mapping in 1976.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1976
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Notes

References

Papazov Passage.

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Papazov Passage.
Copernix satellite image Straits of the Biscoe Islands Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{Biscoes-geo-stub