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Archipelago
  
Dunbar Islands

Population
  
Uninhabited

Island group
  
South Shetland Islands

Highest elevation
  
15 m (49 ft)

Elevation
  
15 m

Aspis Island

Aspis Island is a small, low-lying, ice-free island rising to 15 metres (49 ft), easternmost in the Dunbar group off the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

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Map of Aspis Island, Antarctica

The feature is named after the Aspis, a small musical dragon, often portrayed in medieval literature.

Location

Aspis Island is centred at 62°27′54.5″S 60°08′59.1″W which is 520 m (570 yd) west by north of Gargoyle Bastion, 670 m (730 yd) north of Organpipe Point, 800 m (870 yd) northeast of Zavala Island and 1.59 km (0.99 mi) south-southwest of Williams Point (British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

  • L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
  • 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

    • References

    Aspis Island Wikipedia
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