Peperuda Island ( bg, остров Пеперуда, ostrov Peperuda, ) 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
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 9.51 ha.
[Peperuda Island.]
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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.
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Location
Peperuda Island is located at , which is 25 m north of Hovgaard Island
Hovgaard Island is an island long, lying off the northwest coast of Kyiv Peninsula, southwest of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica.
It was discovered and named "Krogmann-Insel" (Krogmann Island) by the German 1873–74 expe ...
, 150 m west of Pléneau Island
Hovgaard Island () is an island long, lying southwest of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica.
Location
Hovgaard Island is off the Graham Coast of the northwest side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
It is in the Wilhelm Archipelago ...
, and 2.33 km south of Lamya Island in the Dannebrog Islands
The Dannebrog Islands are a group of islands and rocks lying between the Wauwermans Islands and the Vedel Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago.
The Wilhelm Archipelago was first sighted and named by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873 ...
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
References
Peperuda Island.
SCAR 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.
Antarctic Place-names Commission
The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria.
The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
External links
Peperuda Island.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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