Archar Peninsula

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
Archar Peninsula
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

Archar Peninsula (Bulgarian: полуостров Арчар, romanizedpoluostrov Archar, IPA: [poɫuˈɔstrof ɐrˈt͡ʃar]) located in the North-Western extremity of Greenwich Island, Antarctica. The three km long peninsula is bounded by Razlog Cove to the North and McFarlane Strait to the South. Its western half is snow-free in summer. The peninsula is named after the settlement of Archar in Northwestern Bulgaria, successor of the ancient town of Ratiaria.