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Pyramid Island is a conspicuous, pillar-shaped rocky island rising to off the north entrance to McFarlane Strait in the
South Shetland Islands, Antarctica The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty System, ...
. Its surface area is .L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ''Cone Rock''
() is rising to south of the island,
north-northwest of
Meade Islands The Meade Islands are a group of two large islands, Zverino Island and Cave Island, the minor Pisanitsa Island, and several rocks lying in the north entrance to McFarlane Strait, off Archar Peninsula, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland I ...
, northeast of
Williams Point Williams Point is the point forming both the north extremity of Varna Peninsula and the northeast tip of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Separated from Zed Islands to the north by Iglika Passage. The discovery of ...
and
east of
Koshava Island Koshava Island ( bg, остров Кошава, ostrov Koshava, ) is the easternmost island in the Zed Islands, Zed group off Varna Peninsula, northeastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island is ice-free, ext ...
,
Zed Islands The Zed Islands are a small group of islands, the westernmost rising to , lying off the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica comprising four islands: Esperanto Island, Phanagoria Island, Lesidren I ...
. The vicinity of Pyramid Island was visited on 19 February 1819 during the discovery of the South Shetlands by Captain William Smith in the British brig ''Williams'', and later by early 19th century
sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 180 ...
. Both the island and the rock were charted and descriptively named by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1935.


Location

Pyramid Island is located at which is northwest of
Duff Point Duff Point is a point on Archar Peninsula forming the western extremity of Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The name ''Duffs Straits'' was applied to McFarlane Strait by James Weddell in 1820–23, after Captain Norwic ...
,
Greenwich Island Greenwich Island (variant historical names ''Sartorius Island'', ''Berezina Island'') is an island long and from (average ) wide, lying between Robert Island and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Surface area . The name Greenwic ...
, north by west of Meade Islands, north-northeast of Williams Point and northeast of Koshava Island, Zed Islands (British mapping in 1820, 1935, 1948 and 1968, Argentine in 1948 and 1954, Chilean in 1971, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).


See also

*
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer 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 t ...
* List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S *
SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a na ...
* Territorial claims in Antarctica


Map

* L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.


References


External links


SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Islands of the South Shetland Islands {{GreenwichIsland-geo-stub