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Astor Island

Coordinates: 62°38′22.8″S 61°10′15.4″W / 62.639667°S 61.170944°W / -62.639667; -61.170944
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Astor Island
Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Astor Island is located in Antarctic Peninsula
Astor Island
Astor Island
Location of Rugged Island
Astor Island is located in Antarctica
Astor Island
Astor Island
Astor Island (Antarctica)
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates62°38′22.8″S 61°10′15.4″W / 62.639667°S 61.170944°W / -62.639667; -61.170944
ArchipelagoSouth Shetland Islands
Area12 ha (30 acres)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

Astor Island is an island lying between Rugged Island and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surface area 12 hectares (30 acres).

The feature was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 for B. Astor of the New York Lyceum of Natural History (now the American Museum of Natural History).

Maps

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  • Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
  • 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
  • L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0

See also

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Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island