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Brentopara Inlet ( bg, text=залив Брентопара, italic=yes, ‘Zaliv Brentopara’ \'za-liv bren-to-'pa-ra\) is the 7 km wide inlet indenting for 6.2 km the east coast of
Churchill Peninsula Churchill Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula between Cabinet Inlet and Adie Inlet, extending some in a southeasterly direction from the east coast of Graham Land. The peninsula ends in Cape Alexander separating Oscar II Coast to the north ...
,
Oscar II Coast Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...
in Graham Land. It is part of
Adie Inlet Adie Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet, long in a northwest–southeast direction, lying east of Churchill Peninsula along the east coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and photographed from the air ...
entered southeast of
Cavarus Point Cavarus Point ( bg, нос Кавар, ‘Nos Kavar’ \'nos ka-'var\) is the mostly ice-covered point on the south side of the entrance to Zimen Inlet and the north side of the entrance to Brentopara Inlet on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land. It is ...
and northwest of
Astro Cliffs The Astro Cliffs () are rock cliffs , situated at the southeast extremity of Churchill Peninsula, northeast of Cape Alexander Cape Alexander () is a cape which forms the south end of Churchill Peninsula and the east side of the entrance to C ...
. The feature is named after the ancient Thracian town of Brentopara in Southern Bulgaria.


Location

Brentopara Inlet is located at . British mapping in 1974.


Maps

* British Antarctic Territory: Graham Land. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. BAS 250 Series, Sheet SQ 19-20. London, 1974.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.


References


Brentopara Inlet.
SCAR
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...
.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)


External links


Brentopara Inlet.
Copernix satellite image Inlets of Graham Land Oscar II Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{OscarIICoast-geo-stub