Limoza Island
| Limoza Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Joinville Islands ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 59 ′ 40 ″ S , 56 ° 16 ′ 37 ″ W | |
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| length | 470 m | |
| width | 230 m | |
Limoza Island (English; Bulgarian остров Лимоза ostrow Limosa ) (in Argentina Isla Ruiz ) is a 470 m long and 230 m wide rocky island in west-east orientation in the group of Joinville Islands off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.5 km off the north coast of D'Urville Island , 10.98 km east-southeast of Cape Juncal , 6.32 km southeast of Harris Rock and 13.8 km west-northwest of the largest of the Français Rocks .
British scientists mapped them in 1973. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler Limosa , who from the 1970s to the early 1990s fishing in the waters around South Georgia , around the Kerguelen , around the South Orkney Islands and the South Shetland Islands and around the Antarctic Peninsula.
Web links
- Limoza Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)