Belogushev Island ( bg, Белогушев остров, Belogushev ostrov, ) is the mostly ice-covered island off the west coast of
Renaud Island
Renaud Island is an ice-covered island in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica, long and from (average ) wide, lying between the Pitt Islands and Rabot Island. It is separated from the Pitt Islands to the northeast by Mraka Sound, and from Lavoisi ...
in
Biscoe Islands,
Antarctica extending 1.3 km in southeast-northwest direction and 850 m in southwest-northeast direction, and ending in
Speerschneider Point
Speerschneider Point () is a point on Belogushev Island forming the west side of the entrance to Malmgren Bay on the west side of Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands. First accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the U ...
on the northwest. Its surface area is 68 ha. The island was formed at the end of the first decade of 21st century as a result of the retreat of the ice cap of Renaud Island.
The feature is named after the Bulgarian geologist Vasil Belogushev for his support for the Bulgarian Antarctic programme.
Location
Belogushev Island is centred at ,
[Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.]
Antarctic Place-names Commission which is 11.5 km north of
Lively Point
Renaud Island is an ice-covered island in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica, long and from (average ) wide, lying between the Pitt Islands and Rabot Island. It is separated from the Pitt Islands to the northeast by Mraka Sound, and from Lavoisi ...
and 11.5 km south-southwest of
Maurstad Point
Renaud Island is an ice-covered island in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica, long and from (average ) wide, lying between the Pitt Islands and Rabot Island. It is separated from the Pitt Islands to the northeast by Mraka Sound, and from Lavoisie ...
. British mapping in 1960.
Maps
Falkland Islands Dependencies (provisional issue for positioning of place names).Sheet 65 66. Scale 1:200000. Research Department, Foreign Office, 1960
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
See also
*
List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
Notes
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.Antarctic Place-names Commission
The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria.
The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
External links
Belogushev Island.Adjusted Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Biscoe Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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