Petrelik Island

Petrelik Island
	Petrelik Island
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	64°31′46″S 64°01′56″W / 64.52944��S 64.03222°WCoordinates: 64°31′46″S 64°01′56″W / 64.52944°S 64.03222°W
Archipelago	Palmer Archipelago
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Petrelik Island (Bulgarian: остров Петрелик, romanized: ostrov Petrelik, IPA: [ˈɔstrof pɛtrɛˈlik]) is a rocky island in the southwest part of Hamburg Bay on the northwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. The feature is 380 m long in southwest-northeast direction and 200 m wide, and is separated from Emen Island to the southeast by a 160 m wide passage.

The island is named after the settlement of Petrelik in Southwestern Bulgaria.

Location[]

Petrelik Island is located at

64°31′46″S 64°01′56″W / 64.52944°S 64.03222°W, 10.34 km northeast of Gerlache Point and 8.85 km southwest of Bonnier Point. British mapping in 1974.

Maps[]

Anvers Island and Brabant Island. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. BAS 250 Series, Sheet SQ 19-20/3&4. London, 1974.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References[]

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

External links[]

Petrelik Island. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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