Pogledets Island

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Pogledets Island
The Slab Point (left) with the offshore Zavala Island and the smaller Pogledets Island (right next to it)
The Slab Point (left) with the offshore Zavala Island and the smaller Pogledets Island (right next to it)
Waters Hero Bay
Archipelago Dunbar Islands , South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 62 ° 27 '39.7 "  S , 60 ° 9' 30"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 27 '39.7 "  S , 60 ° 9' 30"  W.
Pogledets Island (South Shetland Islands)
Pogledets Island
length 200 m
width 170 m

Pogledets Island (English; Bulgarian остров Погледец ostrow Pogledez ) is an ice-free, elevated, north-south orientation 200 m long and 170 m wide island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . As the northernmost of the Dunbar Islands off the northeast coast of Livingston Island , it is 0.86 km northeast of Zavala Island , 0.45 km northwest of Aspis Island and 1.45 km of Williams Point .

British scientists mapped them in 1968, Bulgarian ones in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2013 after mountains in the Rila - and in the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria .

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