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Vilare Island

Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°21′06.5″S 59°40′35″W / 62.351806°S 59.67639°W / -62.351806; -59.67639
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
Antarctica
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Vilare Island (Bulgarian: остров Виларе, romanized: ostrov Vilare) is the low ice-free island in the Onogur group off the northwest coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 130 m in east-west direction and 60 m wide. It is separated from Churicheni Island by a 20 m wide passage.

The feature is named after the settlement of Vilare in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

Vilare Island is located at 62°21′06.5″S 59°40′35″W / 62.351806°S 59.67639°W / -62.351806; -59.67639, which is 1.7 km north-northeast of Misnomer Point and 290 m west-southwest of Shipot Point. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN: 978-954-92032-6-4 (Second edition 2010, ISBN: 978-954-92032-9-5)