Pegas Island

Pegas Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°02′12″S 64°08′20″W / 65.03667°S 64.13889°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	29.21 ha (72.2 acres)
Length	987 m (3238 ft)
Width	703 m (2306 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Pegas Island (Bulgarian: остров Пегас, romanized: ostrov Pegas, IPA: [ˈɔstrof pɛˈgas]) is the partly ice-free island 987 m long in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 703 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 29.21 ha.^[1]

The feature is named after Pegasus, the winged divine horse in Greek mythology, because of the island's shape supposedly resembling a winged horse, and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.^[1]

Location[]

Pegas Island is located at

65°02′12″S 64°08′20″W / 65.03667°S 64.13889°WCoordinates:

65°02′12″S 64°08′20″W / 65.03667°S 64.13889°W. It abuts Tigan Island on the north, and is situated 2.95 km northwest of Revolver Island and 65 m northeast of Hoatsin 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 Pegas Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

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

External links[]

Pegas 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] Pegas Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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