Astor Island

Astor Island

Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Astor Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°38′22.8″S 61°10′15.4″W / 62.639667°S 61.170944°W / -62.639667; -61.170944Coordinates: 62°38′22.8″S 61°10′15.4″W / 62.639667°S 61.170944°W / -62.639667; -61.170944
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Area	12 ha (30 acres)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island

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

• 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

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

External links

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
•  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Astor Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).