Geography | |
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Location | Antarctica |
Coordinates | 64°59′21″S 64°03′35″W / 64.98917°S 64.05972°W |
Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago |
Area | 16.15 ha (39.9 acres) |
Length | 1.12 km (0.696 mi) |
Width | 245 m (804 ft) |
Administration | |
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
Demographics | |
Population | uninhabited |
Kalmar Island (Bulgarian: остров Калмар, romanized: ostrov Kalmar, IPA: [ˈɔstrof kɐɫ'mar]) is the mostly ice-covered island 1.12 km long in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 245 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 16.15 ha.[1]
The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a specimen of squid ('kalmar' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.[1]