Akin Island

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Akin Island
Waters Drake Street
Archipelago South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 62 ° 13 ′ 41 ″  S , 59 ° 5 ′ 50 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 13 ′ 41 ″  S , 59 ° 5 ′ 50 ″  W
Akin Island (South Shetland Islands)
Akin Island
length 280 m
width 100 m

Akin Island (English; Bulgarian остров Акин ostrow Akin ) is a south-east-northwest orientation 280 m long and 100 m wide rocky island off the north coast of Nelson Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 2.35 km west-northwest of Cariz Point , 2.02 km north-northeast of Baklan Point , 2.14 km east-northeast of Withem Island , 1.12 km south of Nancy Rock and 100 m north-northeast of Fregata Island .

British scientists mapped it in 1968. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2018 after a headland on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast .

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