Imelin Island
| Imelin Island | ||
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| Waters | Krivina Bay | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 48 ′ 13 ″ S , 60 ° 47 ′ 50 ″ W | |
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| length | 600 m | |
| width | 380 m | |
Imelin Island (English; Bulgarian остров Имелин ostrow Imelin ) is a rocky, northeast-southwest orientation 600 m long and 380 m wide island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the northernmost of the three islands in the Krivina Bay of Trinity Island and is located 1.35 km south-southeast of Lyon Peak and 3.2 km northeast of Romero Point . A 190 m wide passage separates it from the shores of Krivina Bay to the north, and a 120 m wide passage from Dink Island to the south-southwest .
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it on 2013 after the Imelin Cave in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Imelin Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)