Transmarisca Bay ( bg, залив Трансмариска, ‘Zaliv Transmarisca’ \'za-liv trans-ma-'ri-ska\) is the 4.3 km wide bay indenting for 3.2 km the north coast of Krogh Island in Biscoe Islands,

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. It is entered east of

Edholm Point Edholm Point () is the northwestern point of Krogh Island in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica forming the west side of the entrance to Transmarisca Bay. The point was mapped from air photos by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey ...

and west of Kuvikal Point. The bay is named after the ancient

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town of

Transmarisca Tutrakan ( bg, Тутракан , ro, Тurtucaia, tr, Turtukaya) is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, an administrative centre of the homonymous municipality, part of Silistra Province. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube opposite t ...

in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Transmarisca Bay 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.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Transmarisca Bay.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

Transmarisca Bay.
Copernix satellite image Bays of Graham Land Landforms of the Biscoe Islands Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{Biscoes-geo-stub