Stego Island

Stego Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°04′21″S 64°07′57″W / 65.07250°S 64.13250°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	93.32 ha (230.6 acres)
Length	2.07 km (1.286 mi)
Width	820 m (2690 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Stego Island (Bulgarian: остров Стего, romanized: ostrov Stego, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈstɛgo]) is the mostly ice-covered island 2.07 km long in southwest–northeast direction and 820 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 93.32 ha.^[1]

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

Location[]

Stego Island is located at

65°04′21″S 64°07′57″W / 65.07250°S 64.13250°WCoordinates:

65°04′21″S 64°07′57″W / 65.07250°S 64.13250°W, which is 52 m northwest of Elisabethinsel, 293 m southeast of Tsankov Island, 240 m southwest of Spatnik Island and 3.01 km west of the west extremity of Booth 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 Stego Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

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

External links[]

Stego 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] Stego Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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