Fizalia Island
| Fizalia Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 43 ′ 44 ″ S , 60 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | 330 m | |
| width | 180 m | |
Fizalia Island (English; Bulgarian остров Физалия ostrow Fisalija ) is a rocky, mostly icy, southeast-northwest orientation 0.33 km long and 0.18 km wide island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 4.2 km southwest of Cape Neumayer and 14.55 km north of Awl Point off the northeast coast of Trinity Island .
British scientists mapped them in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them on 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler Fisalija , who was fishing in the waters around South Georgia from December 1978 to May 1979 under Captain Ivan Krastanov .
Web links
- Fisalija Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)