Lesidren Island
Lesidren Island | ||
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The Zed Islands (background) with Lesidren Island (2nd from the right) | ||
Waters | Drake Street | |
Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
Geographical location | 62 ° 26 '10 " S , 60 ° 8' 55" W | |
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length | 800 m | |
width | 600 m |
Lesidren Island (English; Bulgarian остров Лесидрен ostrow Lessidren ) is an 800 m long and 600 m wide island off the north coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is the second largest of the Zed Islands and is 1.4 km north of Williams Point . It is separated from Phanagoria Island by a 130 m wide, from Koshava Island a 140 m wide passage .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the village of Lesidren in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Lesidren Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)