Aripleri Passage
Location of Trinity Peninsula.
Aripleri Passage (Bulgarian: проток Ариплери, ‘Protok Aripleri’ \'pro-tok a-ri-'ple-ri\) is the 1.77 km wide passage between Eagle Island and Yatrus Promontory on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.
The passage is named after the medieval fortress of Aripleri in Southeastern Bulgaria.
Location
Aripleri Passage is located at 63°38′10″S 57°35′30″W / 63.63611°S 57.59167°WCoordinates: 63°38′10″S 57°35′30″W / 63.63611°S 57.59167°W. German-British mapping in 1996.
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
References
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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