Esperanto Island is the largest and northwesternmost island in the Zed group off the north coast of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island is ice-free, rocky, rising to and extending , with surface area .L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands . Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. It is situated to the northwest of the neighbouring Phanagoria Island, and northwest of Williams Point on Livingston Island. The area was visited by early 19th-century sealers.
The island is named after the constructed international language Esperanto.
Location Esperanto Island is located at . British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.
See also Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S SCAR Territorial claims in Antarctica
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links Esperanto Island. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer. Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links Esperanto Island. Copernix satellite image