Gerlovo Beach

Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Gerlovo Beach (Bulgarian: Герловски бряг, ‘Gerlovski Bryag’ \'ger-lov-ski 'bryag\) is a beach extending 2 km on the northwest coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Stretching both south and northeast of Mercury Bluff, and facing San Telmo Island to the north by west. Snow-free in summer, with area ca. 73 hectares (180 acres).[1] The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The beach is named after the Gerlovo region in northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Gerlovo Beach is centred at 62°29′20″S 60°48′55″W / 62.48889°S 60.81528°WCoordinates: 62°29′20″S 60°48′55″W / 62.48889°S 60.81528°W. British mapping in 1822 and 1968, Spanish in 1991 and Bulgarian in 2009.

Notes

  1. ↑ L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

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