Velingrad Peninsula (, ) is the ice-covered peninsula projecting 22.5 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast on the west side of

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

. Bounded by Barilari Bay to the northeast and Holtedahl Bay to the southwest, and separated from

Biscoe Islands Mendez-Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud Island, Renaud, Lavoisier Island, Lavoisier (named ''Serrano'' by Chile and ''Mitre'' by Argentina), Watkins Island, Watkins, Krogh Island, Krogh, Pickwick Islan ...

to the northwest by Grandidier Channel. Its base is surmounted by Chiren Heights. The UK station Prospect Point operated at the west extremity of the peninsula in 1957–59. The peninsula is named after the city of Velingrad in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Velingrad Peninsula is centred at . British mapping in 1971 and 1976.

Maps

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1971. * British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, 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.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Velingrad Peninsula.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

External links

Velingrad Peninsula.
Copernix satellite image Peninsulas of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-geo-stub