Onogur Islands ( bg, Оногурски острови, ‘Onogurski ostrovi’ \o-no-'gur-ski 'os-tro-vi\) is the group of nine islands and some islets and rocks adjacent to the northwest coast of

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in the

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. The group is situated between

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to the southwest and

Clothier Harbour Clothier Harbour is the 1.5 km wide bay indenting for 1 km the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica between Hammer Point on the northeast and Onogur Islands on the southwest. The harbour was used as a ...

to the northeast, and southeast of Cornwall Island. Kovach Island and Grod Island, the largest two in the group, have a surface area of and respectively.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. ) The area was visited by early 19th century

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based in Clothier Harbour. The island group is named after the settlement of Onogur in northeastern

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in connection with the

Onogurs The Onoğurs or Oğurs (Ὀνόγουροι, Οὔρωγοι, Οὔγωροι; Onογurs, Ογurs; "ten tribes", "tribes"), were Turkic nomadic equestrians who flourished in the Pontic–Caspian steppe and the Volga region between 5th and 7th cen ...

(5th-7th century).

Islands in the Onogur group

The group comprises the following islands: * Churicheni Island * Grod Island * Kovach Island * Leeve Island * Oescus Island * Osenovlag Island * Redina Island * Svetulka Island * Vilare Island

Location

Onogur Islands are centred at . British mapping in 1822 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2009.

Maps

Livingston Island to King George Island.
Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968. * 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.

Notes

References

Onogur Islands.
SCAR

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Onogur Islands.
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