Spatnik Island facts for kids
 Spatnik Island
Location in Antarctica
Spatnik Island
Location in Antarctic Peninsula
Location of Spatnik Island
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| Geography | |
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| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 65°03′55″S 64°06′28″W / 65.06528°S 64.10778°W |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago |
| Area | 6.62 ha (16.4 acres) |
| Length | 485 m (1,591 ft) |
| Width | 290 m (950 ft) |
| Administration | |
| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | uninhabited |
Spatnik Island (Bulgarian: остров Спътник, romanized: ostrov Spatnik) is the partly ice-free island 485 m long in west–east direction and 290 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 6.62 ha.
The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a communications satellite ('spatnik' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.
Location
Spatnik Island is located at 65°03′55″S 64°06′28″W / 65.06528°S 64.10778°W, which is 240 m northeast of Stego Island, 45 m south of Taralezh Island and 2.47 km west of the west extremity of Booth Island. British mapping in 2001.
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