Condor Island
| Condor Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 13 '58 " S , 59 ° 6' 2" W | |
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| length | 320 m | |
| width | 140 m | |
Kondor Island (English; Bulgarian остров Кондор ostrow Kondor ) is a rocky and in a west-east orientation 320 m long and 140 m wide island off the north coast of Nelson Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 2.45 km west of Cariz Point , 1.41 km north-northeast of Baklan Point , 1.73 km east-northeast of Withem Island and 110 m southwest of Fregata Island .
British scientists mapped them in 1968. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler condor , which was used for fishing in the waters around South Georgia , the Kerguelen , the South Orkney Islands and from the 1970s to the early 1990s was active around the South Shetland Islands.
Web links
- Kondor Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)