Kormoran Island

Antarctic island

Kormoran Island

Kormoran Island

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Kormoran Island

Kormoran Island (Antarctic Peninsula)

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Geography
Location| Antarctica
Coordinates| 65°08′17″S 64°14′50″W﻿ / ﻿65.13806°S 64.24722°W﻿ / -65.13806; -64.24722
Archipelago| Wilhelm Archipelago
Area| 36.7 ha (91 acres)
Length| 848 m (2782 ft)
Width| 705 m (2313 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population| uninhabited

Kormoran Island (Bulgarian: остров Корморан, romanized: ostrov Kormoran, IPA: [ˈɔstrof kormoˈran]) is the mostly ice-free rocky island extending 848 m in south–north direction and 705 m in west–east direction in the Vedel Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 36.7 ha.[1]

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

## Location[edit]

Kormoran Island is located 4.72 km northwest of Petermann Island, 80 m southeast of Kamera Island and 160 m southwest of Pate Island. British mapping in 2001.

## Maps[edit]

* 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[edit]

* List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ a b Kormoran Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

## References[edit]

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

## External links[edit]

* Kormoran 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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