Peperuda Island (, ) is the mostly ice-free island 592 m long in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 309 m wide in the

Wilhelm Archipelago The Wilhelm Archipelago is an island archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Wilhelm Archipelago consists of numerous islands, the largest of which are Booth Island and Hovgaard Island (Antarctica), Hovgaard Is ...

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

region. Its surface area is 9.51 ha.Peperuda Island.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a

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('peperuda' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.

Location

Peperuda Island is located at , which is 25 m north of

Hovgaard Island Hovgaard Island may refer to: * Hovgaard Island (Antarctica) * Hovgaard Island (Greenland) * Hovgaard Island (Kara Sea), Siberia, Russia See also * Hovgaard Islands The Hovgaard Islands are a Canadian Arctic island group in the Kitikmeot Re ...

, 150 m west of

Pléneau Island Hovgaard Island () is an island long, lying southwest of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. Location Hovgaard Island is off the Graham Coast of the northwest side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is in the Wilhelm Archipelag ...

, and 2.33 km south of

Lamya Island Lamya Island (, ) is the partly ice-free island 1.56 km long in west–east direction and 630 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 45.72 ha.

in the

Dannebrog Islands The Dannebrog Islands are a group of islands and rocks lying between the Wauwermans Islands and the Vedel Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago. The Wilhelm Archipelago was first sighted and named by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 18 ...

group. 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

Notes

References

Peperuda Island.

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Peperuda Island.
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