Zikoniya Island
| Zikoniya Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 49 '54.5 " S , 60 ° 59' 58" W | |
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| length | 140 m | |
| width | 120 m | |
Zikoniya Island (English; Bulgarian остров Цикония ostrow Zikonija ) is an east-west facing 140 m long and 120 m wide island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 4.75 km northwest of Bulnes Point , 1.38 km northwest of Melanita Island and 7.6 km west of Romero Point off Spert Island and the southwest side of Trinity Island .
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it on 2018 after the trawler Zikonija , which was used for industrial fishing in the waters around South Georgia , around the Kerguelen , around the South Orkney Islands from the 1970s to the early 1990s , around the South Shetland Islands and around the Antarctic Peninsula.
Web links
- Zikoniya Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)