Balsha Island (, ) is an ice-free island in the Dunbar group off the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated northwest of Slab Point and north of Kotis Point. Extending , surface area .L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The island is named after the settlement of Balsha in western Bulgaria.
Location
Balsha Island is located at . Bulgarian topographic survey by Tangra 2004/05 expedition. British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.
See also Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica. List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S SCAR Territorial claims in Antarctica
References
External links Balsha Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica. Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links Balsha Island. Copernix satellite image