Kalotina Island

Kalotina Island

Location of Anvers Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates
Archipelago	Palmer Archipelago
Country
None
Demographics
Population	0
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Kalotina Island (Bulgarian: остров Калотина, ‘Ostrov Kalotina’ \'os-trov ka-'lo-ti-na\) is a rocky island lying 470 m north of Quinton Point, Goten Peninsula on the northwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. The feature is 630 m long in southeast-northwest direction and 350 m wide, and separated from Temenuga Island to the east by a 140 m wide passage.

The island is named after the settlement of Kalotina in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Kalotina Island is located at . British mapping in 1980.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

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

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