Alka Island
| Alka Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 53 ′ 18 ″ S , 60 ° 54 ′ 25 ″ W | |
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| length | 250 m | |
| width | 110 m | |
Alka Island (English; Bulgarian остров Алка ostrow Alka ) is a west-east orientation 0.25 km long and 0.11 km wide island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.7 km north of Asencio Point , 3.43 km south of Bulnes Point , 2.4 km south-southwest of Tizoin Point and 145 m north-northwest of Glarus Island off the southwest coast of Trinity Island .
British scientists mapped them in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them on 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler Alka , who from the 1970s to the early 1990s fishing in the waters around South Georgia , around the Kerguelen , around the southern Orkney Islands , the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula .
Web links
- Alka Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)