Osenovlag Island
| Osenovlag Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | Onogur Islands , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 20 ′ 55 ″ S , 59 ° 40 ′ 25 ″ W | |
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| length | 510 m | |
| width | 130 m | |
Osenovlag Island (English; Bulgarian остров Осеновлаг ostrow Ossenowlag ) is a rocky, in a southeast-northwest orientation 510 m long and 130 m wide island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is the easternmost of the Onogur Islands off the northwest coast of Robert Island and is 3.55 km northeast of Fort William and 1.24 km southwest of Hammer Point . It is separated from Shipot Point by a 90 m wide strait .
British scientists mapped them in 1968, Bulgarians in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2013 after the town of Osenowlag in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Osenovlag Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)