Prisad Island ( bg, остров Присад, ostrov Prisad, ) is the rocky island off the north coast of
Low Island
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in the
South Shetland Islands
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extending 640 m in southwest–northeast direction and 520 m wide. It is separated from
Limets Peninsula by a 60 m wide passage.
The feature is named "after the settlements of Prisad in
Northeastern
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and
Southeastern
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Bulgaria."
Prisad Island.
SCAR
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Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Location
Prisad Island is located at , which is 1.44 km east of Cape Wallace. British mapping in 2009.
See also
* List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
Maps
* South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands. Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
Notes
References
Prisad Island.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
External links
Prisad Island.
Copernix satellite image
Islands of the South Shetland Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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