- Mugla Passage
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Location of Half Moon Island and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Mugla Passage (Bulgarian: пролив Мугла, ‘Proliv Mugla’ \'pro-liv 'mu-gla\) is the 1.35 km wide passage between Half Moon Island and the north coast of Burgas Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
The passage is named after the settlement of Mugla in southern Bulgaria.
Location
Mugla Passage is located at 62°36′15″S 59°54′20″W / 62.60417°S 59.90556°W. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
Map
- 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
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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