Kostilka Island

Kostilka Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°05′57″S 64°24′52″W / 65.09917°S 64.41444°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	1.64 ha (4.1 acres)
Length	213 m (699 ft)
Width	137 m (449 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Kostilka Island (Bulgarian: остров Костилка, romanized: ostrov Kostilka, IPA: [ˈɔstrof kosˈtiɫkɐ]) is the rocky island 213 m long in west–east direction and 137 m wide in the Myriad Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 1.64 ha.^[1]

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

Location[]

Kostilka Island is located at

65°05′57″S 64°24′52″W / 65.09917°S 64.41444°WCoordinates:

65°05′57″S 64°24′52″W / 65.09917°S 64.41444°W, which is 3.35 km northwest of Flank Island, 3.47 km southeast of Final Island, and 6.74 km west-northwest of Vedel Islands. 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 Kostilka Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

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

External links[]

Kostilka 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] Kostilka Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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