Koshava Island

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Koshava Island
The Zed Islands (background) with Koshava Island (right)
The Zed Islands (background) with Koshava Island (right)
Waters Drake Street
Archipelago South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 62 ° 25 ′ 59 ″  S , 60 ° 8 ′ 11 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 25 ′ 59 ″  S , 60 ° 8 ′ 11 ″  W
Koshava Island (South Shetland Islands)
Koshava Island
length 800 m
width 600 m

Koshava Island (English; Bulgarian остров Кошава ostrow Koschawa ) is a 340 m long and 220 m wide island off the north coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is the most easterly of the Zed Islands and is 140 m northeast of Lesidren Island and 1.9 km north of Williams Point .

Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the town of Koschawa in northwestern Bulgaria .

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