Emen Island ( bg, остров Емен, ostrov Emen, ) is a rocky island in the southwest part of
Hamburg Bay on the northwest coast of
Anvers Island
Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island long, the largest in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was discovered by John Biscoe in 1832 and named in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic ...
in the
Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anver ...
,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
. The feature is 920 m long in southeast-northwest direction and 580 m wide, and is separated from Anvers Island to the south and
Petrelik Island to the northwest by 570 m and 160 m wide passages respectively.
The island is named after the village of
Emen in Bulgaria.
Location
Emen Island is located at , 10.45 km northeast of
Gerlache Point and 8.77 km southwest of
Bonnier Point. British mapping in 1974.
Maps
Anvers Island and Brabant Island.Scale 1:250000 topographic map. BAS 250 Series, Sheet SQ 19-20/3&4. London, 1974.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
Emen Island.SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Emen Island.Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Palmer Archipelago
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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