Limoza Island

62°59′40.6″S 56°16′27″W / 62.994611°S 56.27417°W / -62.994611; -56.27417ArchipelagoJoinville Island groupLength470 m (1540 ft)Width230 m (750 ft)AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationuninhabited

Limoza Island (Bulgarian: остров Лимоза, romanized: ostrov Limoza, IPA: [ˈɔstrof liˈmɔzɐ]) is the rocky island off D'Urville Island in the Joinville Island group, Antarctica extending 470 m in west–east direction and 230 m wide.

The island is “named after the ocean fishing trawler Limoza 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

Limoza Island is located at 62°59′40.6″S 56°16′27″W / 62.994611°S 56.27417°W / -62.994611; -56.27417, which is 1.5 km north of the coast of D'Urville Island, 10.98 km east-southeast of Cape Juncal, 6.32 km southeast of Harris Rock, and 13.8 km west-northwest of the largest of Français Rocks. British mapping in 1973.^[1]

Maps

• Joinville Island. Scale 1:250000 topographic map SP 21-22/14. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1973.
• 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

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

External links

• Limoza Island. Copernix satellite image

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