St. Brigid Island ( bg, остров Св. Бригита, ostrov Sv. Brigita, ) is the ice-covered island 2.7 km long in southwest–northeast direction and 1.4 km wide, largest in the
Barcroft group of
Biscoe Islands
Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud, Lavoisier (named ''Serrano'' by Chile and ''Mitre'' by Argentina), Watkins, Krogh, Pickwick and Rabot, lying parallel to the west coast of Graham Land and extending ...
. Its surface area is 222 ha.
[St. Brigid Island.]
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
It is named after
St. Brigid of Kildare (c. 451–525), the
patron saint
A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Anglicanism, or Eastern Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or perso ...
of scholars.
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Location
St. Brigid Island is located at , which is 1.28 km south of Watkins Island
Watkins Island is a low lying, ice-covered island long, lying southwest of Lavoisier Island in the Biscoe Islands. The island was first mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1903–05 and 1908–10, but remai ...
, 1.18 km west of Irving Island
Irving Island () is a small island at the northeastern end of the Barcroft Islands, in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is situated 1.18 km east of St. Brigid Island and 1.9 km north of St. Isidore Island. The island was mapped from a ...
, 3.9 km north of Bedford Island
Bedford Island () is an island about long, lying at the south end of the Barcroft Islands in the Biscoe Islands, 700 m south of Chakarov Island
Chakarov Island ( bg, Чакъров остров, Chakarov ostrov, ) is the ice-covered island 2.1 ...
and 3 km southeast of Belding Island
Belding Island is an island long, lying west of the south end of Watkins Island, Biscoe Islands. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57), and named by the UK Antarctic Place ...
, based on British mapping in 1976.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1976
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
St. Brigid Island.
SCAR
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Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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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
St. Brigid Island.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Biscoe Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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