Prisad Island

Prisad Island

Location of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	63°13′55″S 62°10′38″W / 63.23194°S 62.17722°W / -63.23194; -62.17722
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
Antarctica
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Prisad Island (Bulgarian: остров Присад, romanized: ostrov Prisad, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈprisɐt]) is the rocky island off the north coast of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands extending 640 m in southwest-northeast direction and 520 m wide. It is separated from Limets Peninsula by a 60 m wide passage.

The feature is named "after the settlements of Prisad in Northeastern and Southeastern Bulgaria."^[1]

Location[]

Prisad Island is located at 63°13′55″S 62°10′38″W / 63.23194°S 62.17722°W / -63.23194; -62.17722, which is 1.44 km east of Cape Wallace. British mapping in 2009.

See also[]

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

Maps[]

Map of Smith and Low Islands in the South Shetland Islands

• South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands. Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Notes[]

References[]

• Prisad Island. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links[]

• Prisad Island. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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