Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Tambra Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Tambra Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The mostly ice-covered island in the Pitt island group of Biscoe Islands that is separated from the adjacent Jingle Island to the NE by a 60 m wide passage, and situated 700 m NE of Weller Island and 730 m ESE of Krivus Island. The feature is 1.17 km long in SW-NE direction and 700 m wide. British mapping in 1971. Named after Tambra Hill in Southern Bulgaria.
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