Skoba Island ( bg, остров Скоба, ostrov Skoba, ) comprises four abutting rocky islets 416 m long in south–north direction and 176 m wide 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 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 2.8 ha.
[Skoba Island.]
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a
bracket
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'r ...
symbol ('skoba' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.
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Location
Skoba Island is located at , which is 1.64 km west of Sprey Island
Sprey Island ( bg, остров Спрей, ostrov Sprey, ) is the mostly ice-covered island 1.23 km long in southwest–northeast direction and 460 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula regi ...
, 6 km north of Lapa Island 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, and 9.3 km northeast of Flank Island in the Myriad Islands
Myriad Islands () is a scattered group of small islands and rocks extending for about 5 nautical miles (9 km), lying west of the Dannebrog Islands, Dannebrog and Vedel Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago. Charted by the British Graham Land Exp ...
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
Skoba Island.
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 ...
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
Skoba Island.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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