Vaugondy Island
| Vaugondy Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands , Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 24 '37 " S , 65 ° 21' 47" W | |
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| length | 1.85 km | |
| width | 1.68 km | |
Vaugondy Island (English; Bulgarian остров Вогонди ostrow Wogondi ) is an icy and north-south orientation 1.85 km long and 1.68 km wide island of the Pitt Islands in the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 2.78 km west-southwest of Trundle Island , 1.1 km northwest of Jingle Island , 2.08 km east of Ánimas Island and 3.4 km south of Ribnik Island .
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the French cartographer Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723–1786), who published a map of the southern polar region in 1777.
Web links
- Vaugondy Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)