Bager Island

Bager Island

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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°07′28″S 64°15′53″W / 65.12444°S 64.26472°W / -65.12444; -64.26472
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	21 ha (52 acres)
Length	963 m (3159 ft)
Width	373 m (1224 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Bager Island (Bulgarian: остров Багер, romanized: ostrov Bager, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈbagɛr]) is the rocky island 963 m long in west–east direction and 373 m wide in the Vedel Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 21 ha.^[1]

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling an excavator (‘bager' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.^[1]

Location[]

Bager Island is located at

65°07′28″S 64°15′53″W / 65.12444°S 64.26472°W / -65.12444; -64.26472Coordinates: 65°07′28″S 64°15′53″W / 65.12444°S 64.26472°W / -65.12444; -64.26472, which is 245 m southwest of Rak Island, 5.77 km west by north of Hovgaard Island, 436 m north of Klamer Island, and 3.78 km east-southeast of Flank Island in the Myriad Islands group. 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

Notes[]

References[]

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

External links[]

• Bager Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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