Prosechen Island
| Prosechen Island | ||
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| Waters | Smyadovo Cove | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 37 '23 " S , 61 ° 17' 44" W | |
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| length | 500 m | |
| width | 140 m | |
Prosechen Iceland (English, Bulgarian остров Просечен ostrow Prosetschen ) is an east-west orientation of 500 long and 140 m wide m island off the west coast of Rugged Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . Along with Toledo Island, it is the more northerly of two rocky islands in Smyadovo Cove and is 1.04 km south of Cape Sheffield and 0.5 km north to west of Ugain Point . A 60 m wide passage separates it from Toledo Island to the northwest and a 70 m wide passage from the bank of Smyadovo Cove .
Spanish scientists mapped it in 1992, Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named the island in 2013 after the town of Prosetschen in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Prosechen Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)