Fregata Island
| Fregata Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 13 '50 " S , 59 ° 5' 54" W | |
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| length | 480 m | |
| width | 230 m | |
Fregata Iceland (English, Bulgarian остров Фрегата ostrow fregata ) is in south-northwest orientation 480 long and 230 m wide m island off the north coast of Nelson Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 2.29 km west to north of Cariz Point , 1.7 km north-northeast of Baklan Point , 1.93 km east-northeast of Withem Island , 110 m northeast of Kondor Island and 100 m south-southwest of Akin Island .
British scientists mapped them in 1968. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler Fregata , which was used for fishing in the waters around South Georgia , the Kerguelen , the South Orkney Islands and from the 1970s to the early 1990s was active around the South Shetland Islands.
Web links
- Fregata Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)