Kaliman Island
Kaliman Island | ||
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Waters | Walker Bay | |
Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
Geographical location | 62 ° 37 ′ 31 ″ S , 60 ° 39 ′ 44 ″ W | |
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length | 250 m | |
width | 80 m |
Kaliman Island (English; Bulgarian остров Калиман ostrow Kaliman ) is a flat, triangular, in a south-southeast-north-northwest orientation 250 m long and 80 m wide rocky island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In Walker Bay on Livingston Island , it is 3.9 km northwest of Hannah Point , 9.5 km northeast of Bond Point and 4.62 km south of Snow Peak . In the north it is connected to Livingston Island by a 600 m long tombolo made of moraine rubble . It was exposed when the Werila Glacier retreated at the beginning of the 21st century .
Bulgarian scientists mapped them in 2005, 2009 and 2017. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2017 after the Bulgarian Tsar Kaliman I. Assen (1234–1246).
Web links
- Kaliman Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)