Raketa Island

Raketa Island

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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°01′37″S 64°03′41″W / 65.02694°S 64.06139°W / -65.02694; -64.06139
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	5.18 ha (12.8 acres)
Length	511 m (1677 ft)
Width	177 m (581 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Raketa Island (Bulgarian: остров Ракета, romanized: ostrov Raketa, IPA: [ˈɔstrof rɐˈkɛtɐ]) is the mostly ice-covered island 511 m long in west–east direction and 177 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 5.18 ha.^[1]

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

Location[]

Raketa Island is located at

65°01′37″S 64°03′41″W / 65.02694°S 64.06139°W / -65.02694; -64.06139Coordinates: 65°01′37″S 64°03′41″W / 65.02694°S 64.06139°W / -65.02694; -64.06139, which is 4 km north by west of the west extremity of Booth Island, 540 m southeast of Meduza Island, 2.96 km south-southwest of Kosatka Island and 1.61 km northwest of Rollet 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

See also[]

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

Notes[]

References[]

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

External links[]

• Raketa Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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