Kril Island

Kril Island

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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	64°58′23″S 63°52′58″W / 64.97306°S 63.88278°W / -64.97306; -63.88278
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	24.92 ha (61.6 acres)
Length	1.2 km (0.75 mi)
Width	310 m (1020 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Kril Island (Bulgarian: остров Крил, romanized: ostrov Kril, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ˈkriɫ]) is the mostly ice-covered island 1.2 km long in southwest–northeast direction and 310 m wide in the Wauwermans Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 24.92 ha.^[1]

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a specimen of krill ('kril' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.^[1]

Kril Island is located 4.15 km south-southeast of Host Island, 275 m northwest of Lobel Island, 6.62 km north-northwest of False Cape Renard on Graham Land, and 5.55 km northeast of Mishka Island in the Dannebrog Islands group. British mapping in 2001.

• British Admiralty Nautical Chart 446 Anvers Island to Renaud Island. Scale 1:150000. Admiralty, UK Hydrographic Office, 2001
• Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

• Kril Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

• Kril Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.