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Gerlovo Beach ( bg, Герловски бряг, Gerlovski bryag, ) is a beach extending 2 km on the northwest coast of

Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula ( bg, Полуостров Йоан Павел II, Poluostrov Yoan Pavel II, ) is an ice-covered peninsula on the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica that is bounded by Hero Bay t ...

on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It stretches both south and northeast of Mercury Bluff, facing

San Telmo Island San Telmo Island (a.k.a. Telmo Island) is an island forming the west side of Shirreff Cove on the north-west coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It has a surface area of .L.L. Iv ...

to the north by west, and featuring Belomortsi Point in its northern part. Snow-free in summer, with area ca. . The beach is part of

Antarctic Specially Protected Area An Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) is an area on the continent of Antarctica, or on nearby islands, which is protected by scientists and several different international bodies. The protected areas were established in 1961 under the Antarct ...

''ASPA 149 Cape Shirreff and San Telmo Island''.Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 149 Cape Shirreff and San Telmo Island.
Measure 2 (2005), Annex H, ATCM XXVIII Final Report. Stockholm, 2005 The area was visited by early 19th century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 180 ...

. The beach is named after the

Gerlovo Gerlovo or Gerilovo ( bg, Герлово or Герилово), is a small geographic and ethnographic region in Northern Bulgaria, a hilly fertile valley in the northeastern Balkan Mountains, south of the Ludogorie region. It lies between the Li ...

region in northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Gerlovo Beach is centred at . British mapping in 1822 and 1968, Spanish in 1991 and Bulgarian in 2009 and 2017.

Maps

Cape Shirreff, ASPA No. 149: Breeding wildlife sites and human features.
Punta Arenas: Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH), 2004 * L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005 * L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.

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References

Gerlovo Beach.
SCAR

Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica 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 th ...

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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

Gerlovo Beach.
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