Grod Island
| Grod Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | Onogur Islands , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 21 ′ S , 59 ° 41 ′ W | |
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| length | 610 m | |
| width | 200 m | |
| surface | 10 hectares | |
Grod Iceland (English, Bulgarian остров Грод ostrow Grod ) is a low, unvereiste west-east orientation in 610 m long and 200 m wide island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is the southernmost and after Kovach Iceland second largest in the Onogur Islands and is located 0.81 km north of Misnomer Point and 0.94 km southwest of the Shipot Point off the northwest coast of Robert Iceland , from it by a 130 m wide strait separated .
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the proto-Bulgarian ruler Grod from the 6th century .
Web links
- Grod Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)