Petrelik Island

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Petrelik Island
Waters Hamburg harbor
Archipelago Palmer Archipelago
Geographical location 64 ° 31 ′ 46 ″  S , 64 ° 1 ′ 56 ″  W Coordinates: 64 ° 31 ′ 46 ″  S , 64 ° 1 ′ 56 ″  W
Petrelik Island (Antarctic Peninsula)
Petrelik Island
length 380 m
width 200 m

Petrelik Island (English; Bulgarian остров Петрелик ostrow Petrelik ) is a rocky, southwest-northeast orientation 0.38 km long and 0.2 km wide island in the southwest of the Hamburg port of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 10.45 km northeast of Gerlache Island and 8.85 km southwest of Bonnier Point . To the southeast, a 160 m wide passage separates it from Emen Island .

British scientists mapped it in 1974. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it on 2013 after the town of Petrelik in southwestern Bulgaria .

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