Kostov Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kostov Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The 380 m long in S-N direction and 210 m wide rocky island lying in Lewthwaite Strait off the E coast of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands. Situated 1.75 km NNE of the SE extremity of Coronation Island, 2.48 km S of the NE entrance point of Spence Harbour, and 4.3 km WSW of Cape Disappointment on Powell Island. British mapping in 1963.
Named after Captain Kosyo Kostov, commander of the ocean fishing trawler Afala of the Bulgarian company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas during its fishing trips to Antarctic waters off South Georgia from March to August 1985 and in the 1985/86 season. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany are the pioneers of modern Antarctic fishing industry.
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