Tirizis Island facts for kids

Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Tirizis Island (Bulgarian: остров Тиризис, romanized: ostrov Tirizis) is the rocky island off the east coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 1.05 km in east-west direction and 350 m wide. It is ending in Kitchen Point to the east, and separated from the main island to the west by a 100 m wide passage formed as a result of glacier retreat in the late first decade of 21st century.

The feature is named after the ancient Thracian town of Tirizis in northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Tirizis Island is located at 62°23′20″S 59°21′15″W / 62.38889°S 59.35417°W / -62.38889; -59.35417.

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 (Updated second edition 2010. ISBN: 978-954-92032-9-5)