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Beach in Antarctica
Location of Rozhen Peninsula in the South Shetland Islands.
Arkutino Beach from southwest, with Veleka Ridge in the background.
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island

Arkutino Beach (Bulgarian: бряг Аркутино, romanizedbryag Arkutino, IPA: [ˈbrʲak ɐrˈkutino]) is a beach extending 1.8 km on the east coast of False Bay, Livingston Island, Antarctica. The beach is situated on Rozhen Peninsula, and is bounded by Charity Glacier to the north, Barnard Point to the south, and Veleka Ridge to the east. It is snow-free in the summer. The ice-free surface area of the beach and the adjacent Veleka Ridge is 468 hectares (1,160 acres).

The feature was named after the coastal lagoon of Arkutino in southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Arkutino Beach is centred at 62°45′00″S 60°19′44″W / 62.75000°S 60.32889°W / -62.75000; -60.32889 (Bulgarian mapping in 2005, 2009 and 2017).

See also

Maps

Notes

  1. L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

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This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.


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