Svetulka Island

 ( Islands Of Robert Island ) 

Svetulka Island (, ) is the northernmost island in the Onogur Islands off the northwest coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is rocky, extending , and separated from Osenovlag Island by a wide passage. The area was visited by early 19th century Seal hunting.

The island is named after the settlement of Svetulka in Southern Bulgaria.

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Location Svetulka Island is located at , which is northwest of Shipot Point, east-southeast of Cornwall Island and southeast of Rogozen Island. Measurements are based on British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

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See also

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

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Maps

• Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. (Second edition 2010, )
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

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

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External links

• Svetulka Island. Copernix satellite image

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