Tartar Island
| Tartar Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 61 ° 55 '50 " S , 58 ° 26' 18" W | |
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| length | 500 m | |
Tartar Island is a 500 m long island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 800 m northwest of Round Point off the north coast of King George Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the British sealer Tartar under Captain Charles Pottinger (1790-1833), who had operated between 1821 and 1822 in the waters around the South Shetland Islands.
Polish scientists discovered in the early 1980s that the island now has a direct land connection to Round Point. They named it in Polish Przyladek Tartaru ( English Tartar Point ). This designation was accepted by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 2008.
Web links
- Tartar Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tartar Island on geographic.org (English)