Tsankov Island

Tsankov Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°03′58″S 64°08′38″W / 65.06611°S 64.14389°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	9.48 ha (23.4 acres)
Length	625 m (2051 ft)
Width	216 m (709 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Tsankov Island (Bulgarian: Цанков остров, romanized: Tsankov ostrov, IPA: [t͡sɐnˈkɔf ˈɔstrof]) is the mostly ice-covered island 625 m long in west-southwest to west-northeast direction and 216 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 9.48 ha.^[1]

The feature is named after the dermatologist Nikolay Tsankov, participant in the 2010/11 and subsequent Bulgarian Antarctic campaigns.^[1]

Location[]

Tsankov Island is located at

65°03′58″S 64°08′38″W / 65.06611°S 64.14389°WCoordinates:

65°03′58″S 64°08′38″W / 65.06611°S 64.14389°W, which is 293 m northwest of Stego Island, 175 m east of Bodloperka Island, 1.18 km southeast of Sprey Island and 1.25 km west-southwest of Taralezh Island. British mapping in 2001.

Maps[]

British Admiralty Nautical Chart 446 Anvers Island to Renaud Island. Scale 1:150000. Admiralty, UK Hydrographic Office, 2001
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b Tsankov Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

Tsankov Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links[]

Tsankov Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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

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[CGA-1] Tsankov Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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