Sagita Island
| Sagita Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 17 ′ 35 ″ S , 58 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | 280 m | |
| width | 180 m | |
Sagita Island (English; Bulgarian остров Сагита ostrow Sagita ) is a rocky, southwest-northeast orientation 280 m long and 180 m wide island off the northeast coast of Astrolabe Island northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 0.71 km southeast of Kanarata Point and 1.64 km northeast of Drumohar Peak .
German and British scientists mapped it together in 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler Sagita , who had operated for fishing in conjunction with scientific research in two campaigns between 1978 and 1980 in the waters around South Georgia .
Web links
- Sagita Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)