Svilengrad Peninsula ( bg, полуостров Свиленград, poluostrov Svilengrad, ) is the mostly ice-covered 5.6-km wide peninsula projecting 5.2 km in northwest direction into

Orléans Strait Orléans Strait is a strait running NE-SW and separating Trinity Island and Tower Island from Davis Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. Possibly first seen by Nathaniel B. Palmer, captain of the Hero, on November 18, 1820. Named and outlined in part by t ...

from

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 mad ...

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that 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 an ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...

. It is bounded by Lanchester Bay to the southwest and

Jordanoff Bay Jordanoff Bay ( bg, Йорданов залив, Yordanov zaliv, ) is the 5 km wide bay indenting for 4.9 km Davis Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, and entered northeast of Wennersgaard Point and southwest of Tarakchiev ...

to the northeast. The peninsula ends in

Wennersgaard Point Wennersgaard Point () is a point forming the northwest extremity of Svilengrad Peninsula on Davis Coast, the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. It is situated on both the east side of the entrance to Lanchester Bay and its sub-embayment Hv ...

to the northwest, and has its interior occupied by the north part of

Korten Ridge Korten Ridge ( bg, Кортенски хребет, ‘Kortenski Hrebet’ \'kor-ten-ski 'hre-bet\) is the ridge extending 18 km in south–north direction and 9 km wide, rising to 1864 mSvilengrad in Southern Bulgaria, location of an early Bulgarian

Air Force base An air base (sometimes referred to as a military air base, military airfield, military airport, air station, naval air station, air force station, or air force base) is an aerodrome used as a military base by a military force for the operation ...

used during the

First Balkan War The First Balkan War ( sr, Први балкански рат, ''Prvi balkanski rat''; bg, Балканска война; el, Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; tr, Birinci Balkan Savaşı) lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and invo ...

1912–1913.

Location

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

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.

References

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

External links

Svilengrad Peninsula.
Copernix satellite image Peninsulas of Graham Land Davis Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{DavisCoast-geo-stub