Simeonov Island
| Simeonov Island | ||
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| Waters | Orwell Bight | |
| Archipelago | South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 41 ′ 17 ″ S , 45 ° 18 ′ 47 ″ W | |
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| length | 850 m | |
| width | 390 m | |
Simeonov Island ( English ; Bulgarian Симеонов остров Simeonow ostrow ) is a north-south orientation 850 m long, 390 m wide and rocky island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is east of Slanchev Bryag Cove off the south coast of Coronation Island . The Saunders Point forms its southern foothills.
British scientists mapped it in 1963, but it was not exposed until the glacier retreat at the beginning of the 21st century. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2019 after Captain Anastas Simeonow (1929-2003), from 1976 to 1982 director of the company Ocean Fisheries in Burgas , whose fishing fleet in the waters around South Georgia from the early 1970s to the early 1990s to the Kerguelen , the South Orkney Islands and the South Shetland Islands, and the Antarctic Peninsula .
Web links
- Simeonov Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)