Polich Island

Polich Island

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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	63°17′17″S 58°40′29″W
Length	250 m (820 ft)
Width	100 m (300 ft)
Administration
Antarctica
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Polich Island (Bulgarian: остров Полич, romanized: ostrov Polich, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈpɔlit͡ʃ]) is the 250 m long in southeast–northwest direction and 100 m wide rocky island lying off the northeast coast of Astrolabe Island in Bransfield Strait, Antarctica. It is “named after Golyam (Great) Polich and Malak (Little) Polich Peaks in Rila Mountain, Bulgaria.”

Location

Polich Island is located at 63°17′17″S 58°40′29″W, which is 90 m northeast of Kanarata Point, 460 m north-northwest of Sagita Island and 2.08 km north-northeast of Drumohar Peak. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

• Polich Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Polich Island. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.