Phanagoria Island

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Phanagoria Island
The Zed Islands (background) with Phanagoria Island (2nd from left)
The Zed Islands (background) with Phanagoria Island (2nd from left)
Waters Drake Street
Archipelago South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 62 ° 26 ′ 3 ″  S , 60 ° 9 ′ 46 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 26 ′ 3 ″  S , 60 ° 9 ′ 46 ″  W
Phanagoria Island (South Shetland Islands)
Phanagoria Island
length 700 m
width 500 m

Phanagoria Island (English; Bulgarian остров Фанагория ostrow Fanagorija ) is a 700 m long and 500 m wide island off the north coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is the third largest of the Zed Islands and is located 2.1 km northwest of Williams Point . It is separated from Esperanto Island by a 70 m wide and from Lesidren Island by a 130 m wide passage .

Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after Phanagoria , capital of the Greater Bulgarian Empire in the 7th century .

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