Dink Island
| Dink Island | ||
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| Waters | Krivina Bay | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 48 ′ 33 " S , 60 ° 48 ′ 14" W | |
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| length | 610 m | |
| width | 320 m | |
Dink Island (English; Bulgarian остров Динк ostrow Dink ) is a rocky, northeast-southwest orientation 610 m long and 320 m wide island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the middle of the three islands in the Krivina Bay of Trinity Island and is 1.87 km south of Lyon Peak and 2.47 km northeast of Romero Point . It is separated from Imelin Island in the northeast by a 120 m wide passage , from Rogulyat Island in the southwest by a 180 m wide passage .
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it on 2013 after the town of Dink in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Dink Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)