Toledo Island ( bg, остров Толедо, ostrov Toledo, ) is the southern of two rocky islands in

Smyadovo Cove Smyadovo Cove ( bg, залив Смядово, zaliv Smyadovo, ) is a 900-meter wide cove indenting for 850 m the west coast of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. E ...

on the west coast of Rugged Island in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

. The feature is long in east–west direction and wide. It is separated from Rugged Island to the southeast and

Prosechen Island Prosechen Island ( bg, остров Просечен, ostrov Prosechen, ) is the northern of two rocky islands in Smyadovo Cove on the west coast of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers ...

to the north by wide passages respectively. The area was visited by early 19th century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 180 ...

. The island is named after Joaquín de Toledo y Parra (1780–1819), Captain of the

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...

warship ''San Telmo'' that sank with 644 men on board off the north coast of

Livingston Island Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was the first land discovered south of 60 ...

in September 1819.

Location

Toledo Island is located at , which is south of

Cape Sheffield Cape Sheffield is a cape forming the northwest extremity of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It was named for Captain James P. Sheffield, Master of the brig ''Hersilia'' of Stonington, Connecticut, in 1819–20 and 1820 ...

and north by west of

Ugain Point Ugain Point ( bg, нос Угаин, ‘Nos Ugain’ \'nos u-ga-'in\) is the point on the west coast of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica separating Smyadovo Cove to the north and Bogomil Cove to the south. Situated 1.76&n ...

. Spanish mapping in 1992 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Maps

Península Byers, Isla Livingston.
Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.

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 data
in English)
Toledo Island.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

Toledo Island.
Copernix satellite image Islands of the South Shetland Islands Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub