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Glarus Island
Glarus Island is located in Antarctica
Glarus Island
Glarus Island
Location in Antarctica
Glarus Island is located in Antarctic Peninsula
Glarus Island
Glarus Island
Location in Antarctic Peninsula
Geography
Location Antarctica
Coordinates 63°53′26.5″S 60°54′19.5″W / 63.890694°S 60.905417°W / -63.890694; -60.905417
Archipelago Palmer Archipelago
Length 240 m (790 ft)
Width 130 m (430 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population uninhabited

Glarus Island (Bulgarian: [остров Гларус] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is the 240 m long in southwest-northeast direction and 130 m wide rocky island lying in Belimel Bay on the southwest coast of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is “named after the ocean fishing trawler Glarus of the Bulgarian company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas whose ships operated in the waters of South Georgia, Kerguelen, the South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany are the pioneers of modern Antarctic fishing industry.”

Location

Glarus Island is located at 63°53′26.5″S 60°54′19.5″W / 63.890694°S 60.905417°W / -63.890694; -60.905417, which is 1.37 km north of Asencio Point, 145 m south-southeast of Alka Island, 3.68 km south-southeast of Bulnes Point, 2.6 km south-southwest of Tizoin Point and 180 m northwest of Ralida Island. British mapping in 1978.

Maps

  • British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 – W 63 60. Tolworth, UK, 1978.
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