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Koshava Island ( bg, остров Кошава, ostrov Koshava, ) is the easternmost island in the
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off Varna Peninsula, northeastern Livingston Island in the
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. The island is ice-free, extending . Situated on the west side of the north entrance to McFarlane Strait, northeast of Lesidren Island, and north of Williams Point on Livingston Island. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers. The island is named after the settlement of Koshava in northwestern Bulgaria.


Location

Koshava Island is located at . Bulgarian mapping in 2009.


See also

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Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...
* List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S * Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research * Territorial claims in Antarctica


Maps


Livingston Island to King George Island.
Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968. * L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. (Second edition 2010, )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.


References


Koshava Island.
SCAR
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...
.
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)


External links


Koshava Island.
Copernix satellite image Islands of Livingston Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub