Pelican Island
| Pelican Island | ||
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| Waters | Belimel Bay ( Trinity Island ) | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 52 '22 " S , 60 ° 53' 46" W | |
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| length | 290 m | |
| width | 160 m | |
Pelikan Island (English; Bulgarian остров Пеликан ostrow Pelikan ) is a rocky island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, 290 m long and 160 m wide in a southwest-northeast orientation . It is located 3.1 km north of Asencio Point , 165 m north-northeast of Alka Island , 1.95 km south-east of Bulnes Point and 470 m southwest of Tizoin Point in Belimel Bay on the southwest coast of Trinity Island .
British Scientists mapped 1978. The Bulgarian Antarctic Place-names Commission renamed it in 2018 after the Bulgarian trawlers Pelikan , who from the 1970s to the early 1990s to fish in the waters around South Georgia , the Kerguelen to the South Orkney Islands to the South Shetland Islands and around the Antarctic Peninsula.
Web links
- Pelikan Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)