Geography | |
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Location | Antarctica |
Coordinates | 65°02′12″S 64°08′20″W / 65.03667°S 64.13889°W |
Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago |
Area | 29.21 ha (72.2 acres) |
Length | 987 m (3238 ft) |
Width | 703 m (2306 ft) |
Administration | |
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
Demographics | |
Population | uninhabited |
Pegas Island (Bulgarian: остров Пегас, romanized: ostrov Pegas, IPA: [ˈɔstrof pɛˈgas]) is the partly ice-free island 987 m long in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 703 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 29.21 ha.[1]
The feature is named after Pegasus, the winged divine horse in Greek mythology, because of the island's shape supposedly resembling a winged horse, and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.[1]