Mishka Island

Mishka Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°00′07″S 64°00′14″W / 65.00194°S 64.00389°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	9.9 ha (24 acres)
Length	751 m (2464 ft)
Width	220 m (720 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Mishka Island (Bulgarian: остров Мишка, romanized: ostrov Mishka, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈmiʃkɐ]) is the mostly ice-covered island 751 m long in west–east direction and 220 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 9.9 ha.^[1]

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

Location[]

Mishka Island is located at

65°00′07″S 64°00′14″W / 65.00194°S 64.00389°WCoordinates:

65°00′07″S 64°00′14″W / 65.00194°S 64.00389°W, which is 5.32 km north-northwest of Booth Island, 50 m north of Mechka Island, 3.4 km northeast of Raketa Island, 896 m east-southeast of Kosatka Island, and 5.55 km southwest of Kril Island in the Wauwermans 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 Mishka Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

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

External links[]

Mishka 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] Mishka Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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