Nestorov Island

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Nestorov Island
Waters Scotia Lake
Archipelago South Orkney Islands
Geographical location 60 ° 37 ′ 26 ″  S , 45 ° 13 ′ 29 ″  W Coordinates: 60 ° 37 ′ 26 ″  S , 45 ° 13 ′ 29 ″  W
Nestorov Island (South Orkney Islands)
Nestorov Island
length 374 m
width 120 m

Nestorov Island ( English ; Bulgarian Несторов остров Nestorow Ostrow ) is a rocky island in the south-east-northwest orientation 374 m long, 120 m wide and rocky in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands . It is 0.54 km southeast of the tip of Cape Bennett and 3 km northwest of Rayner Point off the north coast of Coronation Island .

British scientists mapped them in 1963. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2019 after Captain Ivan Nestorov (1942-2001), who in 1985 wrote a report on Bulgarian fisheries in the South Atlantic including South Georgia and the South Orkney Islands.

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