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Zavala Island

Zavala Island (, ) is an ice-free island in the Dunbar group off the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is extending , with surface area . The area was visited by early 19th-century sealers.

The island is named after the settlement of Zavala and the Zavala Mountain in western Bulgaria.

Location

Zavala Island is located at , east-northeast of Balsha Island, southwest of Aspis Island, north of Slab Point, and west of Organpipe Point. Bulgarian topographic survey by the Tangra 2004/05 expedition. British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.

Maps

  • L.L. Ivanov. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
  • L.L. Ivanov. . Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.

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