Ralida Island
| Ralida Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 53 '36 " S , 60 ° 54' 3" W | |
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| length | 320 m | |
| width | 80 m | |
Ralida Island (English; Bulgarian остров Ралида ostrow Ralida ) is an east-west orientation 320 m long and 80 m wide island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.12 km north of Asencio Point , 180 m southeast of Glarus Island , 4.16 km south-southeast of Bulnes Point and 2.86 km south of Tizoin Point off the southwest coast of Trinity Island .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them on 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler Ralida , who from the 1970s to the early 1990s fishing in the waters around South Georgia , around the Kerguelen , around the Southern Orkney Islands , around the Southern Shetland Islands and had operated around the Antarctic Peninsula .
Web links
- Ralida Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)