ANTARCTIC PLACE-NAMES COMMISSION
Bulgarian place names in Antarctica are given in accordance with established Bulgarian and international practice. The Commission maintains international
coordination with naming authorities of other Antarctic nations, and with the
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Names given by |
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HISTORY
The Antarctic Place-names
Commission was established on 17 November 1994 by the Bulgarian Antarctic
Institute. On 16 November 2001 the
Commission was re-designated as a body affiliated to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Bulgaria. Commission
membership evolved over time as follows:
Dr. Lyubomir
Ivanov (Chairman), since 1994 Prof. Christo
Pimpirev, since 1994 Danail Chakarov, since 2013 Amb. Branimir
Zaimov, 2010-2013 Dr. Zlatko
Dimitroff, 2008-2010 Emilena Popova, 2005-2008 Dr. Katya
Todorova, 2001-2005 Dr. Solomon Passy,
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TOPONYMIC GUIDELINES
In 1995 the Commission adopted its
own Toponymic Guidelines defining the relevant types of geographical features,
specific elements of geographical names, inappropriate names, criteria of names
approval, language and spelling, and names approval procedures. In particular, the Guidelines introduced the
Streamlined System for the Romanization of Bulgarian that subsequently became
established in common practice, was promulgated for official use in identity
documents, Bulgarian geographical names, road signs, street names, official
information systems, databases, web sites of local authorities etc., and
eventually codified by the Transliteration Law passed in 2009.
Toponymic Guidelines for
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SURVEYS
The work of the Commission is
supported by geographical information and mapping resulting from topographic
surveys in Antarctica, including those in the austral summers of 1994/95,
1995/96, 1998/99, 2003/04 and 2004/05 (scientific Antarctic expedition Tangra 2004/05). |
ANTARCTIC MAPS
The
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St. Kliment
Ohridski Base, Livingston Island. Scale 1:1000 topographic map.
Image
scale: 1 second of latitude = 31 metres. Released
under Creative
Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. |
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Livingston
Island: Central-Eastern Region. Scale 1:25000
topographic map. Image scale: 1 minute of latitude = 1,858 metres. Released under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. |
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Antarctica:
Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000
topographic map. Image
scale: 1 minute of latitude = 1,858 metres. Map
made by Geototal Ltd. and the
Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria. Presented
to Pope Benedict XVI. Released
under Creative
Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. |
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Antarctica: Scale
1:120000 topographic map. Troyan:
Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. (in Bulgarian) ISBN 978-954-92032-4-0 Updated second edition
2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-8-8 Image
scale: 1 minute of latitude = 1,858 metres. Map made by
the Military Geographic Service of the Bulgarian Army and the Antarctic
Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, in collaboration with the Institute of
Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Published on the
occasion of the Fourth International Polar Year (2007-09). Free copies donated to all Bulgarian
schools. Public
presentation with President Parvanov taking part. |
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Antarctica:
Scale
1:120000 topographic map. Troyan:
Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. (in
English) ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4 Updated second edition
2010. ISBN
978-954-92032-9-5 Image
scale: 1 minute of latitude = 1,858 metres. Map made by
the Military Geographic Service of the Bulgarian Army and the Antarctic
Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, in collaboration with the Institute of
Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. |
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Bowles Ridge
Authors: Asparuh Kamburov and Lyubomir Ivanov.
Scale 1:25000.
Projection EPSG:32720 (Ellipsoid WGS 1984, UTM zone 20S).
Contour interval 10 m.
Vertical datum EGM2008.
Data from the 2022 Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA), and 2004/05,2014/15 and 2016/17 Bulgarian topographic surveys.
Publication date: March 2023.
Publisher: Manfred Wörner Foundation.
ISBN: 978-619-90008-6-1.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0.
For printed version click here.
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Bowles Ridge
Authors: Asparuh Kamburov and Lyubomir Ivanov.
Scale 1:25000.
Projection EPSG:32720 (Ellipsoid WGS 1984, UTM zone 20S).
Contour interval 10 m.
Vertical datum EGM2008.
Data from the 2022 Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA), SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, and 2004/05, 2014/15 and 2016/17 Bulgarian topographic surveys. Publication date: June 2023.
Publisher: Manfred Wörner Foundation.
ISBN: 978-619-90008-8-5.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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BULGARIAN
ANTARCTIC NAMES
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer,
with names and coordinates in English. |
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer,
with narratives in Bulgarian. |
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SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica: Search with a Country of
origin parameter |
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CONTACTS Antarctic Place-names Commission Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1113 Sofia,
Bulgaria e-mail:
apcbg@yahoo.com |
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