Kereka Island ( bg, остров Керека, ostrov Kereka, ) is a mostly ice-covered island in the Pitt group of Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is 1.75 km long in southeast-northwest direction and 580 m wide, and is separated from neighbouring Slumkey Island to the west-southwest by an 80 m wide passage. The island is named after the settlement of Kereka in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

Kereka Island is located at , 3.15 km south of

Snodgrass Island Snodgrass Island is an island 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) long lying northeast of Pickwick Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names ...

and 4.4 km northwest of

Lacuna Island Lacuna Island is a small island lying east of Tula Point, the northern end of Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It was mapped from air photos obtained by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd, 1956–57, and was so named by the UK Antarctic Pl ...

. British mapping in 1971.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory: Graham Coast.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1971.
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 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 data
in English)
Kereka Island.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

Kereka Island.
Copernix satellite image Islands of the Biscoe Islands Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{Biscoes-geo-stub