Zed Islands | |
Image Map Caption: | Location of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands |
Pushpin Map: | Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Relief: | yes |
Location: | Antarctica |
Archipelago: | South Shetland Islands |
Elevation M: | 290 |
Population: | Uninhabited |
Country: | None |
Treaty System: | Antarctic Treaty System |
The Zed Islands are a small group of islands, the westernmost rising to 2900NaN0, lying off the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica comprising four islands: Esperanto Island, Phanagoria Island, Lesidren Island and Koshava Island, and the adjacent Dlagnya and Goritsa Rocks. The group is separated from Williams Point on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island to the south by the 0.93disp=flipNaNdisp=flip wide Iglika Passage.
The name appears to have been applied by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II who charted the islands in 1935.
The midpoint of the group is located at (British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).