Archar Peninsula

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Archar Peninsula

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Archar Peninsula (Poluostrov Archar \po-lu-'os-trov ar-'char\) located in the North-Western extremity of Greenwich Island, Antarctica. The three km long peninsula is bounded by Razlog Cove to the North and McFarlane Strait to the South. Its western half is snow-free in summer. The peninsula is named after the settlement of Archar in Northwestern Bulgaria, successor of the ancient town of Ratiaria.

Coordinates: 62°27′30″S 60°00′00″W / 62.45833°S 60.00000°W / -62.45833; -60.00000

See also

• Tangra 2004/05
• List of Bulgarian toponyms in Antarctica
• Antarctic Place-names Commission

Map

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4)

External links

• Archar Peninsula. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.