Klamer Island ( bg, остров Кламер, ostrov Klamer, ) is the rocky island 520 m long in southwest–northeast direction and 150 m wide in the

Vedel Islands Vedel Islands is a group of small islands lying west of Hovgaard Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago. The largest island of this group was discovered in 1898 and given the name Vedel by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache. The French ...

group of

Wilhelm Archipelago The Wilhelm Archipelago is an island archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Wilhelm Archipelago consists of numerous islands, the largest of which are Booth Island and Hovgaard Island. The archipelago extends f ...

in the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

region. Its surface area is 5.61 ha.Klamer Island.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a

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('klamer' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.

Location

Klamer Island is located at , which is 6.12 km northwest of

Petermann Island Petermann Island is a small, low and rounded island, lying off the northwest coast of Kyiv Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, a short distance south of Booth Island and the Lemaire Channel. It is a popular tourist destination. Descriptio ...

, 40 m northwest of

Kamera Island Kamera Island ( bg, остров Камера, ostrov Kamera, ) is the mostly ice-covered island 778 m long in southwest–northeast direction and 278 m wide in the Vedel Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. I ...

and 436 m south of

Bager Island Vedel Islands is a group of small islands lying west of Hovgaard Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago. The largest island of this group was discovered in 1898 and given the name Vedel by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache. The French ...

. 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

References

Klamer Island.

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Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Klamer Island.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{WilhelmArchipelago-geo-stub

Location

Maps

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