Emeline Island is a conspicuous rocky island rising to over in the Aitcho group on the west side of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island extends with a surface area of .L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. The area was visited by early 19th century seal hunters.
The feature is named after the American sealing vessel Emeline under Captain Jeremiah Holmes, which visited the South Shetlands in 1820–21 and operated from nearby Clothier Harbour.
Location The midpoint is located at and the island lies northwest of Pasarel Island, northwest of Barrientos Island, north of Dee Island, north-northeast of Sierra Island, east by north of Stoker Island, east-southeast of Holmes Rock, southwest of Bilyana Island and southwest of Riksa Islands.British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009
See also Aitcho Islands Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S SCAR South Shetland Islands 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