Esperanto Island

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Esperanto Island
The Zed Islands (background) with Esperanto Island (left)
The Zed Islands (background) with Esperanto Island (left)
Waters Drake Street
Archipelago South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 62 ° 25 '43 "  S , 60 ° 10' 23"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 25 '43 "  S , 60 ° 10' 23"  W
Esperanto Island (South Shetland Islands)
Esperanto Island
length 950 m
width 900 m
Highest elevation 290  m

Esperanto Island (English; Bulgarian остров Есперанто ostrow Esperanto ) is a 950 m long, 900 m wide and up to 290  m high island off the north coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is the largest and most northwest of the Zed Islands and is 70 m northwest of Phanagoria Island and 2.7 km northwest of Williams Point .

Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it after the Esperanto language that same year .

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