Rezovski Creek

Rezovski Creek

Rezovski Creek (Bulgarian: "Rezovski Potok" 're-zov-ski po-'tok) is a melt-water stream located on Livingston Island, Antarctica.

The 500 m long melt-water stream draining that portion of the northwestern slope of Balkan Snowfield located between Hesperides Hill, Atlantic Club Ridge, Krum Rock and Sinemorets Hill in eastern Livingston Island. The arms of Rezovski Creek encompass the old buildings of the Bulgarian Base. Its lower course forms Grand Lagoon, and has its mouth at the SW extremity of Bulgarian Beach used as embarkation place servicing St. Kliment Ohridski Base.

A name of national geography; Rezovska is a river in south-eastern Bulgaria. The name was established in use at the time of approval.

Location

The creek's midpoint is located at coord|62|38|28|S|60|21|57|W| (Large scale Bulgarian mapping of the St. Kliment Ohridski Base vicinity from a topographic survey made from 31 January to 4 February 1996).

Map

* L.L. Ivanov, 1:1000 scale topographic map, Project of the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, supported by the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute, Sofia, 1996 (The first Bulgarian Antarctic topographic map, in Bulgarian)

External links

* [http://www3.pnra.it/SCAR_GAZE SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer] .
* [http://www.mfa.government.bg/uploads/imgs/Livingston/livingston.jpgReference Map]


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