Zed Islands
| File:Zed-Islands.jpg Zed Islands (in the background) from Miziya Peak, Livingston Island | |
| File:Varna-Peninsula-location-map.png Location of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands | |
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| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Antarctica |
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| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands |
| Highest elevation | 290 m (950 ft) |
| Administration | |
| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | Uninhabited |
The Zed Islands are a small group of islands, the westernmost rising to 290 m (951 ft), lying off the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica comprising four islands: Esperanto Island, Phanagoria Island, Lesidren Island and Koshava Island, and the adjacent Dlagnya and Goritsa Rocks. The group is separated from Williams Point on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island to the south by the 1.50 km (0.93 mi) wide Iglika Passage.
The name appears to have been applied by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II who charted the islands in 1935.
Location
[edit | edit source]The midpoint of the group is located at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. (British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).
Map
[edit | edit source]- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands Archived 24 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
See also
[edit | edit source]- Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
- List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
- SCAR
- Territorial claims in Antarctica
References
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