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Churicheni Island

Location of Robert Island in the Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°21′02.5″S 59°40′33″W / 62.350694°S 59.67583°W / -62.350694; -59.67583
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
Antarctica
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	0

Churicheni Island (Bulgarian: остров Чуричени, romanized: ostrov Churicheni) is the ice-free island in the Onogur group off the northwest coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 230 m by 140 m. It is separated from Robert Island by a 100 m wide passage.

The feature is named after the settlement of Churicheni in Southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Churicheni Island is located at 62°21′02.5″S 59°40′33″W / 62.350694°S 59.67583°W / -62.350694; -59.67583, which is 1.78 km north-northeast of Misnomer Point and 190 m west of Shipot Point. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN: 978-954-92032-6-4 (Second edition 2010, ISBN: 978-954-92032-9-5)