Vladigerov Passage (, ‘Vladigerov Protok’ \vla-di-'ge-rov 'pro-tok\) is a passage in the

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 ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...

between

Lavoisier Island Lavoisier Island is an island long and wide, lying between Rabot and Watkins Islands in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is separated from Renaud Island and Rabot Island to the northeast by Pendleton Strait, from Watkins Island to the sou ...

on the east and

Krogh Island Krogh Island () is an ice-covered island about long lying close west of the southern part of Lavoisier Island in Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. The island is separated from Lavoisier Island on the east by Vladigerov Passage, from DuBois Island o ...

on the west. It is 5.8 km long in the southwest-northeast direction and 1.05 km wide. The eponymous ''Vladigerov Island'', 420 m long in southwest-northeast direction and 150 m wide, is lying in the narrowest part of the passage centred at , formed as a result of the retreat of the ice cap of Lavoisier Island in the early 21st century. The passage is named after the Bulgarian composer

Pancho Vladigerov Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov (or Wladigeroff, Wladigerow, Vladiguerov, Vladigueroff; ; 13 March 18998 September 1978) was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist. Vladigerov is arguably the most influential Bulgarian composer of all time. He ...

(1899-1978).

Location

Vladigerov 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.

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)
Vladigerov Passage.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

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