Pordim Islands
| Pordim Islands | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 19 ′ S , 59 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
The Pordim Islands ( Bulgarian острови Пордим ostrowi Pordim ) are a group of two neighboring islands in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They extend 0.87 km east-northeast of Heywood Island and 2.1 km northwest of Catharina Point of Robert Island over a length of 0.96 km in an east-southeast-west-northwest orientation.
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the city of Pordim in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Pordim Islands in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)