Thursday, December 27, 2018

Flamingo Beach

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[[File:Greenwich-Island-location-map.png|thumb|Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands]]
[[File:Livingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png|thumb|Topographic map of [[Livingston Island]] area featuring Flamingo Beach]]
'''Flamingo Beach''' (, ‘Bryag Flamingo’ \'bryag fla-'min-go\) is the 2.6 km long and 600 m wide beach on the north coast of [[Greenwich Island]] in the [[South Shetland Islands]], [[Antarctica]]. Snow-free in summer, it is bounded by [[Terimer Point]] to the west, [[Orión Passage]] to the north, [[Agüedo Point]] to the east, [[Quito Glacier]] to the southeast and [[Teteven Glacier]] to the southwest. The area was visited by early 19th century [[seal hunting|sealers]].

The beach is “named after the ocean [[fishing trawler]] ''Flamingo'' of the Bulgarian company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas whose ships operated in the waters of [[South Georgia Island|South Georgia]], [[Kerguelen Islands|Kerguelen]], the [[South Orkney Islands]], [[South Shetland Islands]] and [[Antarctic Peninsula]] from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the [[Soviet Union]], [[Poland]] and [[East Germany]] are the pioneers of modern Antarctic [[fishing industry]].”<ref>[http://bit.ly/2LC6sdT Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica]</ref>

==Location==
Flamingo Beach is centred at . Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.

==Maps==
* L.L. Ivanov et al. [[:commons:Image:Livingston-Greenwich-map.jpg|Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands]]. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
* L.L. Ivanov. [http://bit.ly/2CC2L4Y Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island.] Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017; updated 2018.
* [http://www.add.scar.org Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).] Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

==Notes==


==References==
* [http://bit.ly/2LC6sdT Flamingo Beach.] [[Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research|SCAR]] [[Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica]].




[[Category:Beaches of the South Shetland Islands]]
[[Category:Bulgaria and the Antarctic]]




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