Snow Island (South Shetland Islands)
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 47 ′ S , 61 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| length | 20 km | |
| width | 11 km | |
| surface | 154.2 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Snow Island ( Spanish name: Isla Nevada ) is an uninhabited island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica .
geography
The island is located in the southwest of the archipelago, southwest of the islands of Livingston and Rugged , from which it is separated by the approximately 6.2 km wide Morton Strait . Snow Island has a length of about 20 km, a width of up to 11 km and an area of 154.2 km². The island is almost completely glaciated , only small areas on the north and north-east tip are ice-free.
cards
- LL Ivanov et al .: Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution). Topographic map on a scale of 1: 100,000, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia 2005.
- LL Ivanov: Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands . Topographic map on a scale of 1: 120,000. Manfred Wörner Foundation, Troyan, 2009, ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ UNEP Islands (English)