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 wide Orión Passage () and from Aitcho Islands to the northeast by the wide Villalón Passage. Extending , with the conspicuous Burro Peaks () in the southeast rising to , and surface area .L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. ) The small Montufar Island () and Araguez Island () are lying east of Dee Island and east of its southern tip Dragash Point respectively. The area was visited by 19th-century sealers.
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 The midpoint of Dee Island is located at . It lies east of Ongley Island, southeast of Sierra Island, southwest of Barrientos Island, west-southwest of Cecilia Island and 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
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
External links SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.