Chavdar Peninsula is a 10-km wide peninsula projecting 13 km in northwest direction from Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

 on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

 in Antarctica. Bounded by Curtiss Bay

Curtiss Bay

Curtiss Bay is a bay about 4 nautical miles wide, indenting the west coast of Graham Land just north of Chavdar Peninsula, and entered between Cape Sterneck and Cape Andreas on Davis Coast. The name Bahia Inutil appearing on a 1957 Argentine chart is considered misleading; the bay has been...

 to the northeast, Hughes Bay

Hughes Bay

Hughes Bay is the 42 km wide bay indenting for 20 km Danco Coast on the west side of Graham Land, Antarctica, lying south of Chavdar Peninsula and north of Pefaur Peninsula, and entered between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray....

 to the southwest and Gerlache Strait

Gerlache Strait

Gerlache Strait or De Gerlache Strait or Détroit de la Belgica is a channel/strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula. The Belgian Antarctic Expedition, under Lt. Adrien de Gerlache, explored the strait in January and February 1898, naming it for the expedition ship...

 to the northwest. Its west extremity Cape Sterneck

Cape Sterneck

Cape Sterneck is a bold, black cliff on a projecting point of Chavdar Peninsula forming the north side of the entrance to Hughes Bay, on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula...

 separates Danco Coast

Danco Coast

Danco Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, who named it for Lieutenant Emile Danco who died on the expedition....

 to the southwest and Davis Coast

Davis Coast

Davis Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of...

 to the northeast.

Chavdar Peninsula is named for the 16th century Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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n rebel leader Chavdar Voyvoda.

Location

The peninsula is located at 64°05′25"S 60°52′45"W.

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. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2006.

Reference

• Chavdar Peninsula. SCAR
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