Lesidren Island (, ) is the second largest and southernmost island in the Zed group off the north coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island is ice-free, extending with 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. Separated from the neighbouring Phanagoria Island and Koshava Island by channels wide respectively. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The island is named after the settlement of Lesidren in northern Bulgaria.
Location Lesidren Island is located at which is north of Williams Point on Livingston Island. 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
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English) Lesidren Island. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
External links Lesidren Island. Copernix satellite image