Kovach Island
| Kovach Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | Onogur Islands , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 21 ′ S , 59 ° 42 ′ W | |
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| length | 630 m | |
| width | 240 m | |
| surface | 11 hectares | |
Kovach Island (English; Bulgarian остров Ковач ostrow Kowatsch ) is a south-east-northwest orientation 630 m long and 240 m wide island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is the westernmost and largest of the Onogur Islands and is 1.17 km north of Misnomer Point , 0.76 km southeast of Cornwall Island and 1.08 km west of Shipot Point off the northwest coast of Robert Island . It is separated from Grod Island by a 100 m wide strait .
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Kowach in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Kovach Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)