Belitsa Peninsula (, ) is the 13-km wide peninsula projecting 8.5 km in northwest direction from Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Bone Bay to the northeast, Charcot Bay to the southwest and Bransfield Strait to the northwest. Trapezoid in form, its west and north extremities are formed by Cape Kjellman and Notter Point respectively. Beaver Rocks are a group of rocks lying 2 nautical miles (4 km) off Belitsa Peninsula at a point midway between Notter Point and Cape Kjellman.

The peninsula is named after the town of Belitsa in southwestern Bulgaria.

Belitsa Peninsula

Location

Belitsa Peninsula is located at . German-British mapping in 1996.

Belitsa Peninsula

Maps

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

Belitsa Peninsula

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English) Belitsa Peninsula. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

External links

Belitsa Peninsula. Copernix satellite image

Peninsulas of Graham Land

Landforms of Trinity Peninsula

Bulgaria and the Antarctic