Kabile Island

Kabile Island (, ) is an Antarctic island extending in south–north direction and wide, situated off the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of .

Named after the ancient Thracian town of Kabile near the present Bulgarian city of Yambol.

Location

The island is located at which is east of Pavlikeni Point, north of Crutch Peaks, northwest of Miletich Point, and west-southwest of Ongley Island (Chilean mapping in 1966, British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009).

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. . Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009
• 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

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

External links

• Kabile Island. Copernix satellite image