Balsha Island
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| Waters | Hero Bay | |
| Archipelago | Dunbar Islands , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 28 '24 " S , 60 ° 11' 35" W | |
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| length | 600 m | |
| width | 300 m | |
Balsha Island (English; Bulgarian остров Балша ostrow Balscha ) is a 600 m long and 300 m wide island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . As one of the Dunbar Islands off the northeast coast of Livingston Island , it is 1.5 km northwest of Slab Point and 2.8 km north of Kotis Point .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the village of Balscha in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Balsha Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)