Cacho Island


Cacho Island is the 750 m long in northwest-southeast direction and 350 m wide rocky island separated from Hall Peninsula on the east side of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands by a passage narrowing to just 60 m. Surface area 19 ha. It is crescent-shaped facing northeast and forming the northeast coast of Ivaylo Cove. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The feature is named after the Spanish physicist, polar explorer and author Javier Cacho Gómez, participant in the 1986/87 Spanish Antarctic expedition and base commander at Juan Carlos I base in subsequent seasons, for his contribution to the promotion of Antarctica and support for the Bulgarian Antarctic programme.

Location

Cacho Island is located at, which is 5 km south-southwest of the northeast extremity of President Head, 12.4 km northeast of Cape Conway and 30.3 km northwest of Deception Island. Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.

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