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The beach omprises four predominantly boulder beaches, separated by a shore rock known locally as Greenpeace Rock, which rises to 6m and is located 800 m northeast of Hespérides Point, by Spanish Point and by a minor nameless point lying 400 m to east by northeast of the latter. The last beach is a narrow strip under the cliff of a part of Perunika Glacier terminating on the coast. Bulgarian Beach is surmounted by a chain of five hills comprising Hesperides Hill , a nameless hill rising to 36m, Sinemorets Hill , Spanish Knoll and Belozem Hill . In summer the area is predominantly snow-free and crossed by four meltwater streams draining the north-western slope of the Balkan Snowfield , with stream mouths located at the western extremities of each beach. The first beach, locally known as Base Beach, is partly occupied by Grand Lagoon formed by Rezovski Creek . Access by dinghies to Base Beach, used for transfer of people and cargo to the Bulgarian base St. Kliment Ohridski , is sometimes rendered difficult by shallow waters. The area would have been known and possibly visited in the early Nineteenth Century by English and American Sealer s frequenting South Bay and particularly the nearby Johnsons Dock. It was mapped in detail by the Spanish Servicio Geográfico del Ejército in 1991 following earlier British , Argentine and Chilean mappings. Bulgarian mapping of the St. Kliment Ohridski Base vicinity at a larger scale from a topographic survey made from January 31 to February 4 , 1996 . LOCATION The midpoint of the beach is at . (from a 1995-96 Bulgarian topographic survey) EXTERNAL LINKS |
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