Chukovezer Island
| Chukovezer Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 39 ′ 6 ″ S , 64 ° 14 ′ 42 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.22 km | |
| width | 460 m | |
Chukovezer Island (English; Bulgarian остров Чуковезер ostrow Tschukoweser ) is a rocky, southeast-northwest orientation 1.22 km long and 0.46 km wide island 700 m off the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 7.22 km north to east of Cape Monaco and 6.8 km south of Gerlache Island .
British scientists mapped it in 1974. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it on 2013 after the town of Chukoveser in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Chukovezer Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)