Esperanto Island | |
Image Map Caption: | Location of Esperanto Island |
Pushpin Map: | Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Relief: | yes |
Location: | Antarctica |
Coordinates: | -62.4286°N -60.1731°W |
Archipelago: | South Shetland Islands |
Area Ha: | 56 |
Area: | 56ha --> |
Length Km: | 0.95 |
Width Km: | 0.9 |
Elevation M: | 290 |
Population: | Uninhabited |
Country: | None |
Treaty System: | Antarctic Treaty System |
Esperanto Island is the largest and northwesternmost island in the Zed group off the north coast of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island is ice-free, rocky, rising to 2900NaN0 and extending 950by, with surface area 56ha.[1] It is situated 70m (230feet) to the northwest of the neighbouring Phanagoria Island, and 2.7km (01.7miles) northwest of Williams Point on Livingston Island. The area was visited by early 19th-century sealers.
The island is named after the constructed international language Esperanto.
Esperanto Island is located at -62.4286°N -60.1731°W. British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.