Pisanitsa Island
| Pisanitsa Island | ||
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| Waters | McFarlane Strait | |
| Archipelago | Meade Islands , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 26 ′ 48 ″ S , 60 ° 3 ′ 15 ″ W | |
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| length | 270 m | |
| width | 60 m | |
Pisanitsa Island (English; Bulgarian остров Писаница ostrow Pisaniza ) is an island in a southwest-northeast orientation 270 m long and 60 m wide . It belongs to the Meade Islands in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands and is 1.26 km west to north of Duff Point , 120 m northeast of Cave Island and 3.6 km southeast of Pyramid Island .
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the village of Pisanitsa in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Pisanitsa Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)