Kalotina Island
| Kalotina Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 18 ′ 38 " S , 63 ° 40 ′ 18" W | |
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| length | 630 m | |
| width | 350 m | |
Kalotina Island (English; Bulgarian остров Калотина ostrow Kalotina ) is a rocky island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, 630 m long and 350 m wide in a southeast-northwest orientation . It is located 0.47 km north of Quinton Point off the Goten Peninsula on the northwest coast of Anvers Island .
British scientists mapped it in 1980. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Kalotina in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Kalotina Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria : Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer (PDF file, short version without descriptions), accessed on January 30, 2019