Zebil Island

Zebil Island

Location of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	63°14′03″S62°13′16″W / 63.23417°S 62.22111°W / -63.23417; -62.22111
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Zebil Island (Bulgarian : остров Зебил, romanized: ostrov Zebil, IPA: [ˈɔstrovˈzɛbiɫ] ) is the rocky island off the northwest coast of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands extending 510 m in east-southeast to west-northwest direction and 340 m wide.

The feature is named after the settlement of Zebil in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Zebil Island is located 440 m southwest of Cape Wallace and 1.3 km north-northeast of Fernandez Point. British mapping in 2009.

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

References

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

External links

• Zebil Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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