Esperanto Island

Esperanto Island is the largest and northwesternmost island in the Zed Islands, Zed group off the north coast of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island is ice-free, rocky, rising to and extending , with surface area .L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. It is situated to the northwest of the neighbouring Phanagoria Island, and northwest of Williams Point on Livingston Island. The area was visited by early 19th-century Seal hunting, sealers.

The island is Zamenhof-Esperanto object, named after the Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language, international language Esperanto.

Location

Esperanto Island is located at . British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.

See also

* Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands#List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S, List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
* Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, SCAR
* Territorial claims in Antarctica

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Esperanto Island.
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Esperanto Island.
Copernix satellite image

Islands of Livingston Island
Bulgaria and the Antarctic

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