Lamya Island

Lamya Island

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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°05′03″S 64°06′43″W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	45.72 ha (113.0 acres)
Length	1.56 km (0.969 mi)
Width	630 m (2070 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Lamya Island (Bulgarian: остров Ламя, romanized: ostrov Lamya, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ɫɐˈmʲa]) is the partly ice-free island 1.56 km long in west–east direction and 630 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 45.72 ha.[1]

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a lamya, monster creature in Bulgarian mythology, and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.[1]

Location

Lamya Island is located at 65°05′03″S 64°06′43″W, which is 85 m south of Elisabethinsel, 2.76 km southwest of the west extremity of Booth Island and 2.33 km north of Peperuda 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

See also

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

Notes

1. Lamya Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References

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

External links

• Lamya Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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