Table Island (South Shetland Islands)

Table Island
Location of Aitcho Islands in the South Shetland Islands
Table Island is located in Antarctica
Table Island
Table Island
Location of Table Island
Table Island is located in Antarctic Peninsula
Table Island
Table Island
Table Island (Antarctic Peninsula)
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates62°20′34.8″S 59°48′29.7″W / 62.343000°S 59.808250°W / -62.343000; -59.808250
ArchipelagoSouth Shetland Islands
Area1.12 km2 (0.43 sq mi)
Length1.4 km (0.87 mi)
Width1.0 km (0.62 mi)
Highest elevation150 m (490 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Populationuninhabited
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Table Island is a conspicuous flat-topped, rocky island lying north of Greenwich Island and north-northwest of the Aitcho group on the west side of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island is rising to over 150 metres (492 feet) and extending 1.4 by 1 kilometre (0.87 by 0.62 miles), with a surface area of 112 hectares (280 acres).[1] It is separated from Aitcho Islands to the south-southeast by the 1.9-kilometre (1.2-mile) wide Klimash Passage.

Turmoil Rock (62°21′17.9″S 59°47′02.5″W / 62.354972°S 59.784028°W / -62.354972; -59.784028) is lying 1.32 kilometres (0.82 miles) southeast of Table Island and 1.65 km (1.03 mi) north-northeast of Morris Rock. The area was visited by early-19th-century sealers.

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.

  1. ^ L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4