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Antarctic: Nature, History, Utilization, Geographic Names and Bulgarian Participation (in Bulgarian)
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The result of a three-year devoted work based on a couple decades of Antarctic research, this 368-page edition is an encyclopedic narrative of the principal topics related to Antarctica – nature, history, sovereignty and politics, Antarctic science, resources, fisheries, tourism and Antarctic names, naturally not forgetting Bulgarian participation. The book includes an extensive bibliography (with most of the items available online), and is amply illustrated with over one hundred photographs, old and new maps and paintings, some of them unique.
Lyubomir Ivanov is a polar explorer, founding chair of the Bulgarian Antarctic Place-names Commission, and national representative of Bulgaria to the international Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI).
Nusha Ivanova has participated in four Antarctic expeditions, and was the first Bulgarian school student to visit Antarctica.
A second, revised and expanded (electronic) edition of the book was published on 26 September 2014, ISBN 978-619-90008-2-3
... The island extends about 73 km (from Start point to Renier point) and its width is reach from 5 km (between South Bay and Hero Bay) up to 36 km (between Botev Point and Willaims Point). Total surface area is 798 km 2 and most of it (87.6%) is occupied by glaciers and permanent snow cover (Ivanov & Ivanova 2014). The Bulgarian Antarctic base "St. ...
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The survey on the fish fauna of the coastal area of South Bay, Livingston Island, was conducted in No-vember 2018-January 2019. Fish were caught by bottom trawl net and fishing rod. Five fish species have been identified: Notothenia coriiceps Richardson, 1844, N. rossii Richardson, 1844, Trematomus tokarevi Andriashev, 1978 and T. nicolai (Boulenger, 1902) of the family Nototheniidae, and Chaenocephalus aceratus (Lönnberg, 1906) of the family Channichthyidae. Data about the habitat characteristics as well as length and age of the sampled specimens are presented.
A standardized description of the Lame Dog Hut, an Antarctic Historic Site or Monument at the Bulgarian base St. Kliment Ohridski on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands.
The proposal was approved and the Lame Dog Hut at the Bulgarian base St. Kliment Ohridski on Livingston Island was designated as Historic Site and Monument 91 by ATCM Measure V (2015), Annex: Revised List of Historic Sites and Monuments.
Lithodid crabs (and other skeleton-crushing predators) may have been excluded from cold Antarctic continental shelf waters for more than 14 Myr. The west Antarctic Peninsula shelf is warming rapidly and has been hypothesized to be soon invaded by lithodids. A remotely operated vehicle survey in Palmer Deep, a basin 120 km onto the Antarctic shelf, revealed a large, reproductive population of lithodids, providing the first evidence that king crabs have crossed the Antarctic shelf. DNA sequencing and morphology indicate the lithodid is Neolithodes yaldwyni Ahyong & Dawson, previously reported only from Ross Sea waters. We estimate a N. yaldwyni population density of 10 600 km?2 and a population size of 1.55 × 106 in Palmer Deep, a density similar to lithodid populations of commercial interest around Alaska and South Georgia. The lithodid occurred at depths of more than 850 m and temperatures of more than 1.4°C in Palmer Deep, and was not found in extensive surveys of the colder shelf at depths of 430–725 m. Where N. yaldwyni occurred, crab traces were abundant, megafaunal diversity reduced and echinoderms absent, suggesting that the crabs have major ecological impacts. Antarctic Peninsula shelf waters are warming at approximately 0.01°C yr?1; if N. yaldwyni is currently limited by cold temperatures, it could spread up onto the shelf (400–600 m depths) within 1–2 decades. The Palmer Deep N. yaldwyni population provides an important model for the potential invasive impacts of crushing predators on vulnerable Antarctic shelf ecosystems.
The first reliable maps of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts were drawn by the French explorer Amédée-François Frézier (1682–1773). In 1712, he was sent on a spying mission to the Spanish ports and fortifications of South America, travelling along the Pacific coastline as far as Callao, the port of Lima. His maps were later used by two of France's most famous explorers, Bougainville and Lapérouse. Frézier also took a keen interest in botany, mineralogy, economics and anthropology. His most celebrated achievement is the introduction to Europe of the Chilean strawberry, which was used to create the hybrid species known today as the garden strawberry. Frézier's observations and illustrations of the people, plants and animals he encountered on his South American travels are given in this popular account, published in Paris in 1716 and subsequently translated into several European languages.
The world’s most isolated continent has spawned some of the most unusual words in the English language. In the space of a mere century, a remarkable vocabulary has evolved to deal with the extraordinary environment and living organisms of the Antarctic and subantarctic. Here, for the first time, is a complete guide to the origin and definitions of Antarctic words. Like other historical dictionaries, The Antarctic Dictionary gives the reader quotations for each word. These quotations are the life-blood of the dictionary — more than 15 000 quotations from about 1000 different sources give the reader a unique insight into the way the language of Antarctica has evolved. The reader will find out what it means to be slotted, the shortcomings of homers, the joys of a donga and the hazards of a growler. The Antarctic Dictionary has been meticulously researched, and will appeal to all those who have been to the frozen continent or have ever dreamed of going there. It will also appeal to those fascinated by the development of language. With a forward by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.