Kalmar Island

Kalmar Island

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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	64°59′21″S 64°03′35″W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	16.15 ha (39.9 acres)
Length	1.12 km (0.696 mi)
Width	245 m (804 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Kalmar Island (Bulgarian: остров Калмар, romanized: ostrov Kalmar, IPA: [ˈɔstrof kɐɫ'mar]) is the mostly ice-covered island 1.12 km long in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 245 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 16.15 ha.[1]

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

Location

Kalmar Island is located at 64°59′21″S 64°03′35″W, which is 1.24 km northwest of Kosatka Island, and 7.27 km south of Knight Island and 7.33 km west-southwest of Kril Island in the Wauwermans Islands group. 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

See also

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

Notes

1. Kalmar Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References

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

External links

• Kalmar Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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