Valchedram Island
Valchedram Island | ||
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Waters | Drake Street | |
Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
Geographical location | 62 ° 27 '3 " S , 60 ° 48' 48" W | |
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length | 280 m |
Valchedram Island (English; Bulgarian остров Вълчедръм ostrow Waltschedram ) is a south-east-northwest orientation 280 m long island off the northern tip of the John Paul II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 1.35 km northwest of Cape Shirreff and 2.2 km north-northeast of San Telmo Island .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the town of Waltschedram in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Valchedram Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)