Kondor Island

62°13′58.4″S 59°06′02″W / 62.232889°S 59.10056°W / -62.232889; -59.10056ArchipelagoSouth Shetland IslandsLength320 m (1050 ft)Width140 m (460 ft)AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

Kondor Island (Bulgarian: остров Кондор, romanized: ostrov Kondor, IPA: [ˈɔstrof konˈdɔr]) is the 320 m long in west–east direction and 140 m wide rocky island lying off the north coast of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

The island is “named after the ocean fishing trawler Kondor 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

Kondor Island is located at 62°13′58.4″S 59°06′02″W / 62.232889°S 59.10056°W / -62.232889; -59.10056, which is 2.45 km west of Cariz Point, 1.41 km north-northeast of Baklan Point, 1.73 km east-northeast of Withem Island and 110 m southwest of Fregata Island. British mapping in 1968.

Maps

• South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 - W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

References

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

External links

• Kondor Island. Copernix satellite image

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