Window Island

Window Island

Location of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Area
Country
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Window Island is a small ice-free island off the north coast of Ray Promontory in the northwest of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island has a surface area of 23 hectares (57 acres) and rises to 72 m (236 ft). It was known to the early 19th century sealers operating on Byers Peninsula.

The feature was charted and descriptively named by Captain George Powell in the British sealing vessel Dove which visited the South Shetlands in 1820-22.

Location

Window Island is located at which is 3.32 km (2.06 mi) east-northeast of Essex Point, 1.79 km (1.11 mi) northeast of Voyteh Point, 9.16 km (5.69 mi) northwest of Nedelya Point and 20.9 km (13.0 mi) southwest of Cape Shirreff (British mapping in 1822 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Spanish in 1861 and 1992, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

Maps

• Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.

External links

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.