Tigan Island

Tigan Island
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°02′00″S 64°08′00″W / 65.03333°S 64.13333°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	10.68 ha (26.4 acres)
Length	750 m (2460 ft)
Width	226 m (741 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Tigan Island (Bulgarian: остров Тиган, romanized: ostrov Tigan, IPA: [ˈɔstrof tiˈgan]) is the partly ice-free island 750 m long in west–east direction and 226 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 10.68 ha.^[1]

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

Location[]

Tigan Island is located at

65°02′00″S 64°08′00″W / 65.03333°S 64.13333°WCoordinates:

65°02′00″S 64°08′00″W / 65.03333°S 64.13333°W. It abuts Pegas Island on the south, and is situated 115 m south of Yastreb Island and 3 km northwest of Revolver 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 Tigan Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

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

External links[]

Tigan 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] Tigan Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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