Sladun Peninsula () is the predominantly ice-covered wide peninsula projecting from

Danco Coast The Danco Coast () is the 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 Adrien de Gerlache, who named it ...

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

into

Gerlache Strait Gerlache Strait or de Gerlache Strait or Détroit de la Belgica is a Channel (geography), channel/strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula. The Belgian Antarctic Expedition, under Lt. Adrien de Gerlache, explored the ...

south of Cierva Cove and north of Duarte Cove. It ends in Cierva Point and Sucia Point to the west. The feature is named after the settlement of Sladun in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

The peninsula extends into

Hughes Bay Hughes Bay () is a bay lying between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Location Hughes Bay is on the Danco Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, on the west side of Graham Land. It is west of the so ...

, on the

, which borders the

of the

, in

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 ...

. The Chavdar Peninsula is to the north and the Relyovo Peninsula is to the south. The

Sikorsky Glacier Relyovo Peninsula () is a predominantly ice-covered wide peninsula projecting from Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula into Gerlache Strait south of Duarte Cove and north of Brialmont Cove. It ends in Renzo Point and Charles Point to the west. Th ...

flows past the south of the peninsula to enter Duarte Cove. The Breguet Glacier flows past the north of the peninsula to enter Cierva Cove. The Argentine Base Primavera is on the tip of the peninsula.
Copernix satellite image

Important Bird Area

The Cierva Point and offshore islands Important Bird Area is on the northwest extremity of the peninsula. It has the same extent as Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 134. This includes Cierva Point in the northwest of the peninsula as well as Apéndice Island (Sterneck Island), Midas Island and Moss Islands. It holds a colony of

South polar skua The south polar skua (''Stercorarius maccormicki'') is a large seabird in the skua family, Stercorariidae. An older name for the bird is MacCormick's skua, after explorer and naval surgeon Robert McCormick, who first collected the type specime ...

(Catharacta maccormicki).

Features

Features, and nearby features, include

Sinitovo Gap

. An ice-covered saddle of elevation extending in the northwest foothills of the Detroit Plateau. It connects

Perkos Dome Relyovo Peninsula () is a predominantly ice-covered wide peninsula projecting from Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula into Gerlache Strait south of Duarte Cove and north of Brialmont Cove. It ends in Renzo Point and Charles Point to the west. Th ...

on the south to Kaliva Range on the northwest. It is part of the glacial divide between

Wright Ice Piedmont The Wright Ice Piedmont () is an ice piedmont extending westward from Lanchester Bay along the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Location The Wright Ice Piedmont lies on the Davis Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It f ...

to the east and Breguet Glacier to the west. Named after the settlement of

Sinitovo Sinitovo () is a village in central Bulgaria. It is located 5 km. east of Pazardzhik. As of 2022 the population was 1768. It is located at an altitude of in a fertile agricultural region near the Maritsa river. The main products grown in the area ...

in Southern Bulgaria.

Breguet Glacier

. Glacier flowing into Cierva Cove south of

Gregory Glacier Chavdar Peninsula () is a wide peninsula projecting in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Location Chavdar Peninsula lies on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Curtiss Ba ...

. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...

(UK-APC) in 1960 for

Louis Charles Breguet Louis Charles Breguet (; 2 January 1880 in Paris – 4 May 1955 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early List of aviation pioneers, aviation pioneers. Biography Louis Charles Breguet was the g ...

(1880-1955) and Jacques Breguet (1881-1939), French aircraft designers who built and flew the first helicopter to carry a man, in vertical flight.

Cierva Cove

. Cove lying southeast of

Cape Sterneck Chavdar Peninsula () is a wide peninsula projecting in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Location Chavdar Peninsula lies on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Curtiss Bay ...

in Hughes Bay. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for

Juan de la Cierva Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva (; 21 September 1895 – 9 December 1936), was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcr ...

(1895-1936), Spanish designer of the autogiro, the first successful rotating wing aircraft in 1923.

Cierva Point

. The south entrance point of Cierva Cove, "Refugio Primavera" pring refugewas established on the point by the

Argentine Antarctic Expedition Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

(AAE) on 23 January 1954. The AAE, 1976-77, established a new "Base Primavera" on the point which was officially opened on 8 March 1977. The point and nearby islands were designated SSSI No.15 under the Antarctic Treaty, and redesignated as ASPA No.134 in 2002.

Apéndice Island

. Island lying northwest of Charles Point in Hughes Bay. The name appears on an Argentine government chart of 1957.

References

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