Prisad Island
| Prisad Island | ||
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| Waters | Osmar Strait | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 13 '55 " S , 62 ° 10' 38" W | |
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| length | 640 m | |
| width | 520 m | |
Prisad Island (English; Bulgarian остров Присад ostrow Prissad ) is a rocky island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands, 640 m long, 520 m wide and facing south-west-northeast . It is 1.44 km east of Cape Wallace off the north coast of Low Island . It is separated from the Limez Peninsula by a 60 m wide strait .
British scientists mapped them in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2013 after the town of Prissad in the southeast and a town of the same name in northeast Bulgaria .
Web links
- Prisad Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)