Rotalia Island
| Rotalia Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 14 ′ 18 ″ S , 59 ° 5 ′ 24 ″ W | |
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| length | 310 m | |
| width | 250 m | |
Rotalia Island (English; Bulgarian остров Роталия ostrow Rotalija ) is a south-east-northwest orientation 310 m long and 250 m wide island off the north coast of Nelson Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 2.06 km west-southwest of Cariz Point , 1.2 km northeast of Baklan Point and 2.2 km east of Withem Island .
British scientists mapped it in 1968. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler Rotalija , who from the 1970s to the early 1990s fishing in the waters around South Georgia , around the Kerguelen , around the Southern Orkney- and the South Shetland Islands and around the Antarctic Peninsula .
Web links
- Rotalia Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)