Spatnik Island

Spatnik Island

Location within Antarctica Location within Antarctic Peninsula
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°03′55″S 64°06′28″W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	6.62 ha (16.4 acres)
Length	485 m (1591 ft)
Width	290 m (950 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Spatnik Island (Bulgarian: остров Спътник, romanized: ostrov Spatnik, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈspɤtnik]) is the partly ice-free island 485 m long in west–east direction and 290 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 6.62 ha.

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a communications satellite ('spatnik' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.

Location

Spatnik Island is located at 65°03′55″S 64°06′28″W, which is 240 m northeast of Stego Island, 45 m south of Taralezh Island and 2.47 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

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

External links

• Spatnik Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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