Klamer Island

Klamer Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°07′55″S 64°15′50″W / 65.13194°S 64.26389°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	5.61 ha (13.9 acres)
Length	520 m (1710 ft)
Width	150 m (490 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Klamer Island (Bulgarian: остров Кламер, romanized: ostrov Klamer, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈkɫamɛr]) is the rocky island 520 m long in southwest–northeast direction and 150 m wide in the Vedel Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 5.61 ha.^[1]

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a paper clip ('klamer' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.^[1]

Location[]

Klamer Island is located at

65°07′55″S 64°15′50″W / 65.13194°S 64.26389°WCoordinates:

65°07′55″S 64°15′50″W / 65.13194°S 64.26389°W, which is 6.12 km northwest of Petermann Island, 40 m northwest of Kamera Island and 436 m south of Bager 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 Klamer Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

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

External links[]

Klamer 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] Klamer Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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