Papazov Island
| Papazov Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 18 ′ 19 ″ S , 58 ° 39 ′ 12 ″ W | |
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| length | 200 m | |
| width | 100 m | |
Papazov Island (English; Bulgarian Папазов остров Papasow ) is a rocky, west-southwest-east-northeastern orientation 200 m long and 100 m wide island in front of the entrance to Velcha Cove on the east coast of Astrolabe Island northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 2.27 km southeast of Kanarata Point and 1.4 km east of Drumohar Peak .
German and British scientists mapped it together in 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it on 2018 after the Bulgarian-French artist George Papasow (1894–1972).
Web links
- Papazov Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)