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Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

Korsis Island (Bulgarian: остров Корсис, romanized: ostrov Korsis) is the rocky island lying 150 m off the northwest coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It extends 300 m in southeast-northwest direction and 180 m wide. The feature is named after the Bulgarian military commander Korsis, 9th century.

Location

Korsis Island is located at 62°44′49.5″S 61°29′44″W / 62.747083°S 61.49556°W / -62.747083; -61.49556, which is 1750 m northeast of Byewater Point, 760 m east-northeast of Gergini Reef and 2.93 km southwest of Bizone Rock. 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.
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