Kormoran Island

Kormoran Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°08′17″S 64°14′50″W / 65.13806°S 64.24722°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	36.7 ha (91 acres)
Length	848 m (2782 ft)
Width	705 m (2313 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Kormoran Island (Bulgarian: остров Корморан, romanized: ostrov Kormoran, IPA: [ˈɔstrof kormoˈran]) is the mostly ice-free rocky island extending 848 m in south–north direction and 705 m in west–east direction in the Vedel Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 36.7 ha.^[1]

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

Location[]

Kormoran Island is located at

65°08′17″S 64°14′50″W / 65.13806°S 64.24722°WCoordinates:

65°08′17″S 64°14′50″W / 65.13806°S 64.24722°W, which is 4.72 km northwest of Petermann Island, 80 m southeast of Kamera Island and 160 m southwest of Pate 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 Kormoran Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

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

External links[]

Kormoran 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] Kormoran Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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