Tartar Island

61°55′47″S 58°26′13″W / 61.92972°S 58.43694°W / -61.92972; -58.43694AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

Tartar Island is a small (13 ha), ice-free, oval-shaped island 0.6 km (0.37 mi) long, lying 0.7 km (0.43 mi) north-west of Round Point, off the north coast of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for the sealing vessel Tartar (Captain Pottinger) from London, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.

Important Bird Area

The island has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of about 18,000 pairs of chinstrap penguins.^[1]

See also

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Tartar Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.