Zagore Beach

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Zagore Beach from southwest, with Canetti Peak on the right
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island

Zagore Beach (Bulgarian: Загорски бряг, romanized: Zagorski bryag, IPA: [zɐˈɡɔrski ˈbrʲak]) faces False Bay on Livingston Island, Antarctica and extends for 4 km on the Rozhen Peninsula between Charity Glacier and the Ruen Icefall. The beach is surmounted by Canetti Peak (400 m) and MacKay Peak (approx 700 m). Surface area 220 hectares (540 acres).[1]

The beach is named after the historic region of Zagore situated south of the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria.

  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