Loading
  • 21 Aug, 2019

  • By, Wikipedia

Peperuda Island

Peperuda Island (Bulgarian: остров Пеперуда, romanizedostrov Peperuda, IPA: [ˈɔstrof pɛpɛˈrudɐ]) is the mostly ice-free island 592 m long in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 309 m wide in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 9.51 ha.

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

Location

Peperuda Island is located at 65°06′24″S 64°05′00″W / 65.10667°S 64.08333°W / -65.10667; -64.08333, which is 25 m north of Hovgaard Island, 150 m west of Pléneau Island, and 2.33 km south of Lamya Island in the Dannebrog Islands group. British mapping in 2001.

Maps

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Peperuda Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References

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