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Mokren Bight

Mokren Bight (Bulgarian: залив Мокрен, ‘Zaliv Mokren’ \'za-liv 'mo-kren) is a 2 km wide embayment indenting for 850 m the west coast of Astrolabe Island in Bransfield Strait off Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Entered northwest of Gega Point and southeast of the small peninsula ending in Raduil Point to the north.

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The bight is named after the settlement of Mokren in southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Mokren Bight is located at 63°19′14″S 58°43′08″W. 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). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

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