Mechka Island ( bg, остров Мечка, ostrov Mechka, ) is the mostly ice-covered island extending 875 m in southwest–northeast direction and 350 m in south–north direction in the
Dannebrog Islands
The Dannebrog Islands are a group of islands and rocks lying between the Wauwermans Islands and the Vedel Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago.
The Wilhelm Archipelago was first sighted and named by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873 ...
group of
Wilhelm Archipelago
The Wilhelm Archipelago is an island archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.
Wilhelm Archipelago consists of numerous islands, the largest of which are Booth Island and Hovgaard Island. The archipelago extends f ...
in the
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...
region. Its surface area is 15.9 ha.
[Mechka Island.]
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a
bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae. They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Nor ...
('mechka' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.
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Location
Mechka Island is located at , which is 4.96 km north-northwest of Booth Island
Booth Island (or Wandel Island) is a rugged, Y-shaped island, long and rising to off the northwest coast of Kyiv Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica in the northeastern part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. The narrow passage between the island a ...
, 3.12 km northeast of Raketa Island
Raketa Island ( bg, остров Ракета, ostrov Raketa, ) is the mostly ice-covered island 511 m long in west–east direction and 177 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surfa ...
, 50 m south of Mishka Island
Mishka Island ( bg, остров Мишка, ostrov Mishka, ) is the mostly ice-covered island 751 m long in west–east direction and 220 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface ...
, and 5.6 km southwest of Kril Island
Kril Island ( bg, остров Крил, ostrov Kril, ) is the mostly ice-covered island 1.2 km long in southwest–northeast direction and 310 m wide in the Wauwermans Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula reg ...
in the Wauwermans Islands
Wauwermans Islands is a group of small, low, snow-covered islands forming the northernmost group in the Wilhelm Archipelago. Discovered by a German expedition 1873–74, under Dallmann. Sighted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, und ...
group. British mapping in 2001.
Maps
British Admiralty Nautical Chart 446 Anvers Island to Renaud Island.
Scale 1:150000. Admiralty, UK Hydrographic Office, 2001
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008
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
Mechka Island.
SCAR
A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a na ...
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
Mechka Island.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image
{{Bulgarian-named Antarctic place
Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago
Bulgaria and the Antarctic