Zavala Island

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Zavala Island
The Slab Point (left) and in front of it Zavala Island
The Slab Point (left) and in front of it Zavala Island
Waters Hero Bay
Archipelago Dunbar Islands , South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 62 ° 28 ′ 12 ″  S , 60 ° 9 ′ 52 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 28 ′ 12 ″  S , 60 ° 9 ′ 52 ″  W
Zavala Island (South Shetland Islands)
Zavala Island
length 700 m
width 250 m

Zavala Island (English; Bulgarian остров Завала ostrow Sawala ) is a 700 m long and 250 m wide island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the group of Dunbar Islands off the northeast coast of Livingston Island , it is 1.3 km east-northeast of Balsha Island , 0.6 km southwest of Aspis Island , 0.8 km north of Slab Point and 0.35 km west of Organpipe Point .

Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after a town and a mountain of the same name in western Bulgaria .

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