Ribnik Island
| Ribnik Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands , Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 22 '5 " S , 65 ° 21' 34" W | |
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| length | 1 km | |
| width | 500 m | |
Knezha Island (English; Bulgarian остров Рибник ostrow Ribnik ) is an icy and in a southwest-northeast orientation 1 km long and 500 m wide island of the Pitt Islands in the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 0.78 km southeast of Knezha Island , 3.35 km northwest of Trundle Island and 3.4 km north of Vaugondy Island .
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Ribnik in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Ribnik Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)