Glarus Island
| Glarus Island | ||
|---|---|---|
| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 53 '26.5 " S , 60 ° 54' 19.5" W | |
|
||
| length | 240 m | |
| width | 130 m | |
Glarus Island (English; Bulgarian остров Гларус ostrow Glarus ) is a southwest-northeast orientation 0.24 km long and 0.13 km wide island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.37 km north of Asencio Point , 145 m south-southeast of Alka Island , 3.68 km south-southeast of Bulnes Point , 2.6 km southwest of Tizoin Point and 180 m northwest of Ralida Island off the southwest coast of Trinity Island .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler Glarus , which was used from the 1970s to the early 1990s for fishing in the waters around South Georgia , around the Kerguelen , around the South Orkney Islands , around the South Shetland Islands and had operated around the Antarctic Peninsula .
Web links
- Glarus Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)