Churicheni Island
| Churicheni Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | Onogur Islands , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 21 '2.5 " S , 59 ° 40' 33" W | |
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| length | 230 m | |
| width | 140 m | |
Churicheni Island (English; Bulgarian остров Чуричени ostrow Tschuritscheni ) is a 230 m long, 140 m wide and non-iced island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . As one of the Onogur Islands , it is 1.78 km north-northeast of Misnomer Point and 0.19 km west of Shipot Point around 100 m off the north-west coast of Robert Island .
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the village of Churicheni in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Churicheni Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)