Mokren Bight
Encyclopedia
Mokren Bight is a 2 km wide embayment indenting for 850 m the west coast of Astrolabe Island
in Bransfield Strait
off Trinity Peninsula
, Antarctica. Entered north of Gega Point
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The bight is named after the settlement of Mokren in southeastern Bulgaria
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Astrolabe Island
Astrolabe Island is an island long, lying in the Bransfield Strait northwest of Cape Ducorps, Trinity Peninsula. It was discovered by the French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for his chief expedition ship, the Astrolabe....
in Bransfield Strait
Bransfield Strait
Bransfield Strait is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast-southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula. It was named in about 1825 by James Weddell, Master, Royal Navy, for Edward Bransfield, Master, RN, who charted the South Shetland...
off Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...
, Antarctica. Entered north of Gega Point
Gega Point
Gega Point is a point on the west coast of Astrolabe Island in Bransfield Strait off Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica forming the southeast side of the entrance to Mokren Bight. Situated 1.15 km northwest of Sherrell Point and 3.35 km southeast of Raduil Point.The point is named after the...
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The bight is named after the settlement of Mokren in southeastern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
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Location
Mokren Bight is located at 63°19′14"S 58°43′08"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.