Aspis Island | |
Map: | Antarctica#Antarctic Peninsula |
Coordinates: | -62.4651°N -60.1498°W |
Archipelago: | Dunbar Islands |
Elevation M: | 15 |
Population: | Uninhabited |
Country: | None |
Aspis Island is a small, low-lying, ice-free island rising to, easternmost in the Dunbar group off the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
The feature is named after the Aspis, a small musical dragon, often portrayed in medieval literature.
Aspis Island is centred at -62.4651°N -60.1498°W which is 520m (1,710feet) west by north of Gargoyle Bastion, 670m (2,200feet) north of Organpipe Point, 800m (2,600feet) northeast of Zavala Island and 1.59km (00.99miles) south-southwest of Williams Point (British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).