Yastreb Island

Yastreb Island

Yastreb Island Location of Yastreb Island Yastreb Island Yastreb Island (Antarctic Peninsula)
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°01′47″S 64°07′33″W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	17.12 ha (42.3 acres)
Length	934 m (3064 ft)
Width	317 m (1040 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Yastreb Island (Bulgarian: остров Ястреб, romanized: ostrov Yastreb, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈjastrɛp]) is the mostly ice-covered island 934 m long in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 317 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 17.12 ha.

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a hawk ('yastreb' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.

Location

Yastreb Island is located at 65°01′47″S 64°07′33″W, which is 478 m southeast of Lamantin Island, 1.26 km west-southwest of Meduza Island and 115 m north of Tigan Island. 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

References

• Yastreb Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Yastreb Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.