Window Island is a small ice-free island off the north coast of Ray Promontory in the northwest of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island has a surface area of 23 ha and rises to 72 m. It was known to the early 19th century sealers operating on Byers Peninsula. The feature was charted and descriptively named by Captain George Powell in the British sealing vessel Dove which visited the South Shetlands in 1820–22.

Location

Window Island is located at -62.56542°N, -61.12369°W which is 3.32 km east-northeast of Essex Point, 1.79 km northeast of Voyteh Point, 9.16 km northwest of Nedelya Point and 20.9 km southwest of Cape Shirreff (British mapping in 1822 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Spanish in 1861 and 1992, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

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