Lesidren Island

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Lesidren Island
The Zed Islands (background) with Lesidren Island (2nd from the right)
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 Coordinates: 62 ° 26 '10 "  S , 60 ° 8' 55"  W
Lesidren Island (South Shetland Islands)
Lesidren Island
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 .

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