Geography | |
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Location | Antarctica |
Coordinates | 65°02′00″S 64°08′00″W / 65.03333°S 64.13333°W |
Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago |
Area | 10.68 ha (26.4 acres) |
Length | 750 m (2460 ft) |
Width | 226 m (741 ft) |
Administration | |
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
Demographics | |
Population | uninhabited |
Tigan Island (Bulgarian: остров Тиган, romanized: ostrov Tigan, IPA: [ˈɔstrof tiˈgan]) is the partly ice-free island 750 m long in west–east direction and 226 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 10.68 ha.[1]
The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a frying pan ('tigan' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.[1]