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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Stresher Peninsula (BGR) 66° 16' 10.0" S 65° 26' 40.0" W
Name ID: 137631 Place ID: 19327

The predominantly ice-covered rectangular peninsula 30 km wide and projecting 24 km northwestwards from Graham Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Holtedahl Bay to the NE, Auvert Bay to the NW and Darbel Bay to the SW. Its W extremity Cape Bellue separates Graham Coast to the NE from Loubet Coast to the SW. British mapping in 1976. Named after Stresher Peak in the Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria.

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