Haralambiev Island
| Haralambiev Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Larsen Islands ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 35 '44 " S , 46 ° 4' 38" W | |
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| length | 530 m | |
| width | 300 m | |
Haralambiev Island ( English ; Bulgarian Хараламбиев остров Charalambiev Ostrow ) is a rocky island in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands, 530 m long, 300 m wide and oriented in a southeast-northwest orientation . It is located 2.8 km northwest of Moreton Point , 0.16 km northwest of Monroe Island and 0.2 km southeast of Angelov Island in the Larsen Islands group .
British scientists mapped them in 1963. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2019 after Christo Charalambiew (1942–2017), captain of the trawler Aktinia , which operated between November 1979 and June 1980 in the waters around the Southern Orkney Islands.
Web links
- Haralambiev Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)