Table Island is a conspicuous flat-topped, rocky island lying north of

Greenwich Island Greenwich Island (variant historical names ''Sartorius Island'', ''Berezina Island'') is an island long and from (average ) wide, lying between Robert Island and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Surface area . The name Greenwic ...

and north-northwest of the Aitcho group on the west side of English Strait in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

. The island is rising to over and extending , with a surface area of .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 separated from Aitcho Islands to the south-southeast by the wide

Klimash Passage Klimash Passage ( bg, проток Климаш, ‘Protok Klimash’ \'pro-tok 'kli-mash\) is the 1.9 km wide passage in the South Shetland Islands between Table Island (South Shetland Islands), Table Island and Bowler Rocks on the northwest and ...

. ''Turmoil Rock'' () is lying southeast of Table Island and north-northeast of Morris Rock. The area was visited by early-19th-century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 180 ...

. The island was descriptively named by sealers from its shape, while the rock was descriptively named from the breakers it creates, following a survey from ''HMS Protector'' in 1967.

Location

The midpoint of Table Island is located at and the island lies northwest of Fort William, Robert Island, north of

Dee Island Dee Island is the ice-free island lying between Greenwich Island and Aitcho Islands in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and is separated from Greenwich Island to the south by the wide Orión Passage () and from Aitcho Islands to the north ...

, north of Morris Rock, north by east of Holmes Rock, northeast of

Romeo Island Romeo Island is a rocky island lying off the north coast of Greenwich Island and west of Aitcho Islands in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending in west-northwest direction and wide, with a surface area of .L.L. IvanovAntarctica: ...

, southwest of

Potmess Rocks Potmess Rocks is a group of large rocks lying northwest of Robert Island (South Shetland Islands), Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The group is extending , featuring the conspicuous rocks named Asses Ears (South Shetland ...

and west by south of

Rogozen Island Rogozen Island ( bg, остров Рогозен, ostrov Rogozen, ) is a conspicuous island off the northwest coast of Robert Island, South Shetland Islands situated north-northeast of Cornwall Island, south-southwest of Heywood Island, and ...

(British mapping in 1820, 1821, 1822, 1935 and 1968, Spain in 1861, Chilean in 1947, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

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SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Islands of the South Shetland Islands {{GreenwichIsland-geo-stub

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