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Coordinates: 62°21′25″S 59°47′50″W / 62.35694°S 59.79722°W

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Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Klimash Passage (Bulgarian: проток Климаш, ‘Protok Klimash’ \'pro-tok 'kli-mash\) is the 1.9 km wide passage in the South Shetland Islands between Table Island and Bowler Rocks on the northwest and Morris Rock and Chaos Reef, Aitcho Islands to the SE. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The passage is named after the settlement of Klimash in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Klimash Passage is located at 62°21′25″S 59°47′50″W / 62.35694°S 59.79722°W / -62.35694; -59.79722. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Maps

Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968.
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 (Second edition 2010, ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5)
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Klimash Passage. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

Klimash Passage. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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Main islands	Clarence Deception Elephant Greenwich King George Livingston Low Nelson Robert Smith Snow
Other islands	Afala Aitcho Barrientos Bilyana Cecilia Emeline Jorge Kilifarevo Pasarel Riksa Akin Alfeus Araguez Astor Aurelia Barlow Basso Beslen Biruni Boatin Borceguí Bridgeman Cacho Chiprovtsi Cornwall Cornwallis Craggy Dee Desolation Island (South Shetland Islands) Dinea Dioptra Dufayel Dunbar Aspis Balsha Melyane Pogledets Zavala Eadie Express Fregata Gergini Gibbs Glumche Gnomon González Half Moon Heywood Kabile Kaliman Kondor Korsis Låvebrua Meade Cave Pisanitsa Zverino Miladinovi Montufar Ogygia Ongley Onogur Churicheni Grod Kovach Leeve Oescus Osenovlag Redina Svetulka Vilare Penguin Pindarev Pordim Presnakov Prisad Prosechen Pyramid Rogozen Romeo Rotalia Rowett Rugged Saffar San Telmo Seal Sierra Square End Stoker Sugarloaf Table Tatul Tirizis Toledo Treklyano Two Summit Valchedram Window Withem Wood Yrvind Zebil Zed Esperanto Koshava Lesidren Phanagoria
Rocks, stacks, reefs spits and banks	Aim Rocks Alepu Avren Baktriana Ballestilla Bekas Belchin Besson Bizone Bonert Borda Bowler Brahe Bris Buchino Caraquet Chabrier Channel Chaos Chapman Cheshire Chorobates Cone Cosmolabe Cove Cutler Dlagnya Dovizio Dzhegov Eddystone Elemag Eliza Emm Enchantress Folger Frederick Galiche Glozhene Goritsa Grace Graovo Groma Growler Habermehl Hauken Henfield Hetty Hole Holmes Ibar Indian Keep Kianida Knight Koynare Lenoir Letelier Liberty Lientur Limit Livonia Long Low Lynx Lyutibrod Maglizh Makresh Martello Tower Meldia Mellona Milev Mónica Morris Nancy Napier Nessie Nikudin Odometer Okol Opaka Ørnen Orsini Orsoya Parry Patch Passage Patresh Perivol Pig Pingvin Potmess Asses Ears Priboy Rabisha Ramsden Raquelia Reyes Ritchie Rongel Rosales Rusokastro Sail Rock Salient Sally Sewing-Machine Needles Shearer Simms Simpson Sinbad Skrino Stackpole Stewart Suhache Syrezol Telefon Telish Tenorio The Pointers Tooth Triznatsi Troughton Tu Turmoil Tvarditsa Twin Pinnacles Upton Vardim Vergilov Vidal Vietor Vodoley Voluyak Waldseemüller ‎ ‎ Weeks
Straits	Boyd English Fildes Glogovo Hell Gates Iglika Izgrev Klimash McFarlane Morton Mugla Neck or Nothing Nelson Orión Osmar Smolensk Villalón
Undersea and subglacial features	Bransfield Trough Macheret Trench Orca Seamount Quiroga Ridge South Shetland Trough Vergilov Ridge Wordie Seamount

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Regions	Biogeographic realm Antarctic Peninsula East Antarctica ice sheet shield Extreme points Floristic Kingdom Islands South Pole South magnetic pole West Antarctica ice sheet
Bodies of Water	Antarctic/Southern Ocean Lake CECs Lake Mercer Lake Vostok List of rivers McMurdo Sound Ross Sea Weddell Sea
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