Chavdar Peninsula

Location of Chavdar Peninsula on Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

Chavdar Peninsula (Poluostrov Chavdar \po-lu-'os-trov chav-'dar\) is a 10-km wide peninsula projecting 13 km in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.^[1] It is bounded by Curtiss Bay to the northeast, Hughes Bay to the southwest and Gerlache Strait to the northwest. Its west extremity Cape Sterneck separates Danco Coast to the southwest and Davis Coast to the northeast. The interior of the peninsula is partly occupied by the westerly portion of Kaliva Range.

The feature is named for the 16th-century Bulgarian rebel leader Chavdar Voyvoda.^[1]

Location

Chavdar Peninsula is centred at 64°05′25″S 60°52′45″W / 64.09028°S 60.87917°W / -64.09028; -60.87917Coordinates: 64°05′25″S 60°52′45″W / 64.09028°S 60.87917°W / -64.09028; -60.87917.

British mapping in 1978.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3198. DOS 610 – W 64 60. Tolworth, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

1 2 Chavdar Peninsula. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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

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