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Pisanitsa Island

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°26′48″S 60°03′14.5″W / 62.44667°S 60.054028°W / -62.44667; -60.054028
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
Antarctica
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Pisanitsa Island (Bulgarian: остров Писаница, romanized: ostrov Pisanitsa) is the rocky island in the Meade group off Archar Peninsula, the northwest extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands extending 270 m in southwest-northeast direction and 60 m wide. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The island is named after the settlement of Pisanitsa in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Pisanitsa Island is located 1.26 km west by north of Duff Point, 120 m northeast of Cave Island and 3.6 km southeast of Pyramid Island. 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)