Zebil Island

Zebil Island

Location of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Zebil Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	63°14′03″S 62°13′16″W / 63.23417°S 62.22111°W / -63.23417; -62.22111Coordinates: 63°14′03″S 62°13′16″W / 63.23417°S 62.22111°W / -63.23417; -62.22111
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Zebil Island (Bulgarian: остров Зебил, ‘Ostrov Zebil’ \'os-trov 'ze-bil\) is the rocky island off the northwest coast of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands extending 510 m in east-southeast to west-northwest direction and 340 m wide.

The feature is named after the settlement of Zebil in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Zebil Island is located 440 m southwest of Cape Wallace and 1.3 km north-northeast of Fernandez Point. British mapping in 2009.

Maps

• South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands. Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

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

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