Lamantin Island

Lamantin Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°01′21″S 64°07′56″W / 65.02250°S 64.13222°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	15.8 ha (39 acres)
Length	812 m (2664 ft)
Width	318 m (1043 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Lamantin Island (Bulgarian: остров Ястреб, romanized: ostrov Lamantin, IPA: [ˈɔstrof lɐmɐnˈtin]) is the partly ice-free island 812 m long in southwest–northeast direction and 318 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 15.8 ha.^[1]

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

Location[]

Lamantin Island is located at

65°01′21″S 64°07′56″W / 65.02250°S 64.13222°WCoordinates:

65°01′21″S 64°07′56″W / 65.02250°S 64.13222°W, which is 135 m southwest of Tyulen Island, 1.66 km west-northwest of Meduza Island and 478 m northwest of Yastreb 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 Yastreb Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

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

External links[]

Lamantin 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] Yastreb Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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