Bodloperka Island

Bodloperka Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°04′04″S 64°09′32″W / 65.06778°S 64.15889°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	22.43 ha (55.4 acres)
Length	688 m (2257 ft)
Width	473 m (1552 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Bodloperka Island (Bulgarian: остров Бодлоперка, romanized: ostrov Bodloperka, IPA: [ˈɔstrov bodloˈpɛrkɐ]) is the partly ice-free island 688 m long in south-southwest to north-northeast direction and 473 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 22.43 ha.^[1]

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

Location[]

Bodloperka Island is located at

65°04′04″S 64°09′32″W�� / 65.06778°S 64.15889°WCoordinates:

65°04′04″S 64°09′32″W / 65.06778°S 64.15889°W, which is 650 m northwest of Stego Island, 2.3 km east-southeast of Skoba Island, 640 m south-southeast of Sprey Island and 175 m west of Tsankov 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

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b Bodloperka Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

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

External links[]

Bodloperka Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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

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[CGA-1] Bodloperka Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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