Soatris Island
| Soatris Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 34 ′ 23 ″ W | |
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| length | 400 m | |
| width | 200 m | |
Soatris Island (English; Bulgarian остров Соатрис ostrow Soatris ) is an east-southeast-west-northwestern orientation 400 m long and 200 m wide rocky island off the northwest coast of the Pasteur Peninsula of the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 5 km west-southwest of Cape Roux , 0.8 km north of Metchnikoff Point and 9.6 km north to east of Claude Point .
British scientists mapped it in 1980 and 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it on 2015 after the ancient Roman settlement of Soatris in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Soatris Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)