Raklitsa Island ( bg, остров Раклица, ostrov Raklitsa, ) is the rocky island in
Boisguehenneuc Bay
Boisguehenneuc Bay ( bg, text=залив Боагееньок, italic=no, ‘Zaliv Boisguehenneuc’ \'za-liv bo-a-ge-e-'nyok\) is the 6.9 km wide bay indenting for 2.4 km the northwest coast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, ...
lying 650 m off the northwest coast of
Liège Island
Liège Island (in English also Liege Island) is an island, long and wide, lying immediately northeast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, and separated from Hoseason Island and Christiania Islands to the northeast by Croker Passage. ...
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 Anvers ...
,
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 contine ...
. The island is 350 m long in east-west direction and 120 m wide.
The island is named after the settlement of
Raklitsa
Raklitsa is a village in Karnobat Municipality, in Burgas Province, in southeastern Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the e ...
in Southeastern Bulgaria.
Location
Raklitsa Island is located at , 2.7 km southwest of
Moureaux Point and 5.38 km east-northeast of
Bebresh Point. British mapping in 1978.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 63 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
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 datain English)
Raklitsa Island.SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Raklitsa Island.Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Palmer Archipelago
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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