title: Peperuda Island
text: # Peperuda Island
  
  Peperuda Island (Bulgarian: остров Пеперуда, romanized: ostrov Peperuda, IPA:) is the mostly ice-free island 592 m long in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 309 m wide in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 9.51 ha.
  
  The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a butterfly ('peperuda' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.
  
  ## Location
  
  Peperuda Island is located at 65°06′24″S 64°05′00″W﻿ / ﻿65.10667°S 64.08333°W﻿ / -65.10667; -64.08333, which is 25 m north of Hovgaard Island, 150 m west of Pléneau Island, and 2.33 km south of Lamya Island in the Dannebrog Islands group. British mapping in 2001.
  
  ## Maps
  
  * British Admiralty Nautical Chart 446 Anvers Island to Renaud Island. Scale 1:150000. Admiralty, UK Hydrographic Office, 2001
  * Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008
  * Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
  