Mraka Sound ( bg, залив Мрака, ‘Zaliv Mraka’ \'za-liv 'mra-ka\) is a roughly rectangular water body extending 5 km in southeast-northwest direction and 4.2 km in southwest-northeast direction in

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. It is bounded by

Renaud Island Renaud Island is an ice-covered island in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica, long and from (average ) wide, lying between the Pitt Islands and Rabot Island. It is separated from the Pitt Islands to the northeast by Mraka Sound, and from Lavoisi ...

on the south, Pickwick Island on the north and Winkle Island on the northeast. The sound is named after the historical region of Mraka in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Mraka Sound is centred at . British mapping in 1971.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory: Graham Coast.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1971.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

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)
Mraka Sound.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer. Sounds of Graham Land Landforms of the Biscoe Islands Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{Biscoes-geo-stub