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Revolver Island

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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°02′58″S 64°04′21″W / 65.04944°S 64.07250°W / -65.04944; -64.07250
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	8.77 ha (21.7 acres)
Length	645 m (2,116 ft)
Width	284 m (932 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Revolver Island (Bulgarian: остров Револвер, romanized: ostrov Revolver) is the partly ice-free island 645 m long in southwest–northeast direction and 284 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 8.77 ha.

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a revolver handgun, and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.

Location

Revolver Island is located at 65°02′58″S 64°04′21″W / 65.04944°S 64.07250°W / -65.04944; -64.07250, which is 1.06 km southwest of Rollet Island, 1.85 km northwest of the west extremity of Booth Island, 1.67 km northeast of Taralezh Island and 2.95 km southeast of Pegas Island. British mapping in 2001.

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