Saffar Island ( bg, остров Сафар, ostrov Saffar, ) is the rocky island off the north coast of

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in the

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extending 290 m in west–east direction and 230 m in south–north direction, with a surface area of 3.64 ha. It is separated from Elephant Island by a passage narrowing to 325 m at points. The feature is named after

Ibn al-Saffar Abu al‐Qasim Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar al‐Ghafiqī ibn as-Saffar al‐Andalusi (born in Córdoba, Spain, Cordoba, died in the year 1035 at Denia), also known as Ibn as-Saffar (, literally: son of the brass worker), was a Spanish-Arab astrono ...

(d. 1035), an

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ian astronomer and author of one of the

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treatises on the astrolabe that introduced the triangulation method to Europe; in association with other names in the area deriving from the early development or use of

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instruments and methods.

Location

Saffar Island is centred at ,Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission which is 22.36 km east-southeast of

Cape Yelcho Cape Yelcho is the northwestern extremity of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named by the UK Joint Services Expedition, 1970–71,Point Wild Point Wild is a point west of Cape Valentine, east of Saddleback Point, and directly adjacent to the Furness Glacier on the north coast of Elephant Island. It was named Cape Wild by the Shackleton Endurance expedition 1914–16, but Point W ...

, 360 m north-northeast of Ronalds Point and 880 m east-northeast of Biruni Island. British mapping of the area in 1822,1972 and 2009.

Maps

Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c.
from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822.
Elephant Island: From a survey by the Joint Services Expedition, December 1970.
Scale 1:132000 topographic map. Royal Geographical Society (UK), 1972.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972.
South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and Gibbs Islands.
Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009.
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

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

Saffar Island.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image Islands of the South Shetland Islands Elephant Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{ElephantIsland-geo-stub

Location

See also

Maps

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