Emen Island
| Emen Island | ||
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| Waters | Hamburg harbor | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 32 ′ 3 ″ S , 64 ° 1 ′ 14 ″ W | |
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| length | 920 m | |
| width | 580 m | |
Emen Island (English; Bulgarian остров Емен ostrow Emen ) is a rocky, southeast-northwest orientation 0.92 km long and 0.58 km wide island in the Hamburg port of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 10.45 km northeast of Gerlache Island and 8.77 km southwest of Bonnier Point . A 570 m wide passage separates it to the south from the bank of the Hamburg harbor, and to the northwest to Petrelik Island this is 160 m wide.
British scientists mapped it in 1974. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it on 2013 after the town of Emen in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Emen Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)