Rog Island

Rog Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°02′58″S 64°02′45″W / 65.04944°S 64.04583°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	5.06 ha (12.5 acres)
Length	557 m (1827 ft)
Width	208 m (682 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Rog Island (Bulgarian: остров Рог, romanized: ostrov Rog, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈrɔk]) is the partly ice-free island 557 m long in west–east direction and 208 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 5.06 ha.^[1]

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

Location[]

Rog Island is located at

65°02′58″S 64°02′45″W / 65.04944°S 64.04583°WCoordinates:

65°02′58″S 64°02′45″W / 65.04944°S 64.04583°W, which is 1.47 km north of the west extremity of Booth Island, 653 m east of Revolver Island and 461 m south 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

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b Rog Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

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

External links[]

Rog 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] Rog Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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