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Lamya Island

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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°05′03″S 64°06′43″W / 65.08417°S 64.11194°W / -65.08417; -64.11194
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	45.72 ha (113.0 acres)
Length	1.56 km (0.969 mi)
Width	630 m (2,070 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Lamya Island (Bulgarian: остров Ламя, romanized: ostrov Lamya) is the partly ice-free island 1.56 km long in west–east direction and 630 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 45.72 ha.

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a lamya, monster creature in Bulgarian mythology, and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.

Location

Lamya Island is located at 65°05′03″S 64°06′43″W / 65.08417°S 64.11194°W / -65.08417; -64.11194, which is 85 m south of Elisabethinsel, 2.76 km southwest of the west extremity of Booth Island and 2.33 km north of Peperuda Island. British mapping in 2001.

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