Glarus Island

Island in Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica

Glarus Island

Glarus Island

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Glarus Island

Glarus Island (Antarctic Peninsula)

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Geography
Location| Antarctica
Coordinates| 63°53′26.5″S 60°54′19.5″W﻿ / ﻿63.890694°S 60.905417°W﻿ / -63.890694; -60.905417
Archipelago| Palmer Archipelago
Length| 240 m (790 ft)
Width| 130 m (430 ft)
Administration

Antarctica

Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population| uninhabited

Glarus Island (Bulgarian: остров Гларус, romanized: ostrov Glarus, IPA: [ˈɔstrov ˈɡɫaros]) is the 240 m long in southwest-northeast direction and 130 m wide rocky island lying in Belimel Bay on the southwest coast of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is “named after the ocean fishing trawler Glarus of the Bulgarian company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas whose ships operated in the waters of South Georgia, Kerguelen, the South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany are the pioneers of modern Antarctic fishing industry.”[1]

## Location[edit]

Glarus Island is located at 63°53′26.5″S 60°54′19.5″W﻿ / ﻿63.890694°S 60.905417°W﻿ / -63.890694; -60.905417, which is 1.37 km north of Asencio Point, 145 m south-southeast of Alka Island, 3.68 km south-southeast of Bulnes Point, 2.6 km south-southwest of Tizoin Point and 180 m northwest of Ralida Island. British mapping in 1978.

## Maps[edit]

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 – W 63 60. Tolworth, UK, 1978.
* Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

## References[edit]

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

## External links[edit]

* Glarus 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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