Kaprela Island
| Kaprela Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 45 '47 " S , 60 ° 38' 41" W | |
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| length | 500 m | |
| width | 150 m | |
Kaprela Island (English; Bulgarian остров Капрела ostrow Kaprela ) is a mostly icy, in a southwest-northeast orientation 500 m long and 150 km wide rock island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 8.43 km southwest of Cape Neumayer and 10.67 km north of Awl Point off the northeast coast of Trinity Island .
British Scientists mapped 1974. The Bulgarian Antarctic Place-names Commission renamed it in 2018 after the Bulgarian trawlers Kaprela that from the 1970s to the early 1990s to fish in the waters around South Georgia , the Kerguelen to the South Orkney Islands to the South Shetland Islands and around the Antarctic Peninsula.
Web links
- Kaprela Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)