Tambra Island
| Tambra Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands , Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 26 ′ 5 ″ S , 65 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.17 km | |
| width | 700 m | |
Tambra Island (English; Bulgarian остров Тъмбра ostrow Tambra ) is a largely icy island of the Pitt Islands in the Biscoe Islands archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In a southwest-northeast orientation, it is 1.17 km long and 700 m wide. It is located 0.7 km northeast of Weller Island and 0.73 km east-southeast of Krivus Island . It is separated from Jingle Island to the northeast by a 60 m wide passage .
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the Tambra hill in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Tambra Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)