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Stego Island

Location within Antarctica Location within Antarctic Peninsula
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°04′21″S 64°07′57″W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	93.32 ha (230.6 acres)
Length	2.07 km (1.286 mi)
Width	820 m (2690 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Stego Island (Bulgarian: остров Стего, romanized: ostrov Stego, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈstɛgo]) is the mostly ice-covered island 2.07 km long in southwest–northeast direction and 820 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 93.32 ha.

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a stegosaur, and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.

Location

Stego Island is located at 65°04′21″S 64°07′57″W, which is 52 m northwest of Elisabethinsel, 293 m southeast of Tsankov Island, 240 m southwest of Spatnik Island and 3.01 km west of the west extremity of Booth Island. British mapping in 2001.

Maps

• British Admiralty Nautical Chart 446 Anvers Island to Renaud Island. Scale 1:150000. Admiralty, UK Hydrographic Office, 2001
• Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

See also

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

References

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

External links

• Stego Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.