Lapa Island (Wilhelm Archipelago)

Lapa Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°07′02″S 64°13′02″W / 65.11722°S 64.21722°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	40.4 ha (100 acres)
Length	1.12 km (0.696 mi)
Width	537 m (1762 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Lapa Island (Bulgarian: остров Лапа, romanized: ostrov Lapa, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈɫapɐ]) is the mostly ice-covered island 800 m long in west–east direction and 490 m wide in the Vedel Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 21.73 ha.^[1]

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

Location[]

Lapa Island is located at

65°07′02″S 64°13′02″W / 65.11722°S 64.21722°WCoordinates:

65°07′02″S 64°13′02″W / 65.11722°S 64.21722°W, which is 3.9 km northwest of Hovgaard Island, 37 m north of Kostenurka Island, 805 m east-northeast of Rak Island, and 4.97 km southwest of Lamya Island in the Dannebrog Islands group. 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 Lapa Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

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

External links[]

Lapa 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] Lapa Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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