{{Short description|Island in Antarctica}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox islands | name = Dee Island | image_name = greenwich-Island-location-map.png | image_caption = Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands | map = Antarctica | map_caption = Location of Dee Island | map_relief = yes | nickname = | location = Antarctica | coordinates = {{coord|62|25|22.3|S|59|47|01|W|}} | archipelago = South Shetland Islands | total_islands = | major_islands = | area_km2 = | area_ha = 197 <!-- | area = {{convert|197|ha|acre|abbr=on}}<ref name=area></ref> --> | length_km = 1.9 | width_km = 1.37 | highest_mount = Burro Peaks | elevation_m = 190 | population = Uninhabited | population_as_of = | density_km2 = | ethnic_groups = | country = None | treaty_system = Antarctic Treaty System }}
[[File:Dee-Island.jpg|thumb|left|Dee Island from English Strait, with Burro Peaks on the left and Greenwich Island in the background]] '''Dee Island''' is the ice-free island lying between Greenwich Island and Aitcho Islands in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and is separated from Greenwich Island to the south by the {{convert|850|m|yd|abbr=on}} wide '''Orión Passage''' ({{coord|62|26|17|S|59|47|45|W|}}) and from Aitcho Islands to the northeast by the {{convert|1.1|km|mi|abbr=on}} wide Villalón Passage. Extending {{convert|1.9|by|1.37|km|mi|abbr=on}}, with the conspicuous ''Burro Peaks'' ({{coord|62|25|38.2|S|59|46|45|W|}}) in the southeast rising to {{convert|190|m|ft|abbr=on}}, and surface area {{convert|197|ha|acre}}.<ref name=area>L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. {{ISBN|978-954-92032-9-5}} (First edition 2009. {{ISBN|978-954-92032-6-4}})</ref> The small ''Montufar Island'' ({{coord|62|25|36.6|S|59|45|24.9|W|}}) and ''Araguez Island'' ({{coord|62|25|57.8|S|59|47|15|W|}}) are lying {{convert|650|m|yd|abbr=on}} east of Dee Island and {{convert|200|m|yd|abbr=on}} east of its southern tip Dragash Point respectively. The area was visited by 19th-century sealers.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
Dee Island was charted and named, probably from its shape, by Discovery Investigations in 1935, while Montufar Island is named after a member of the Second Ecuadorian Antarctic Expedition who had an accident during the building of Pedro Vicente Maldonado Base.
==Location== {{Unsourced|section|date=January 2025}} The midpoint of Dee Island is located at {{coord|62|25|22.3|S|59|47|01|W|}} and the island is lying {{convert|3.9|km|mi|abbr=on}} east of Ongley Island, {{convert|850|m|yd|abbr=on}} southeast of Sierra Island, {{convert|1.1|km|mi|abbr=on}} southwest of Barrientos Island, {{convert|2.07|km|mi|abbr=on}} west-southwest of Cecilia Island and {{convert|3.02|km|mi|abbr=on}} northwest of Spark Point (British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971 and 1998, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).
==See also== * Aitcho Islands * Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica * Greenwich Island * SCAR * Territorial claims in Antarctica
==Map== thumb|280px|Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. * 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.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20101125233248/http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/ SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer].
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Category:Islands of the South Shetland Islands
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