 Tartar Island

Tartar Island is a small (13 ha), ice-free, oval-shaped island long, lying north-west of Round Point, off the north coast of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for the sealing vessel "Tartar" (Captain Pottinger) from London, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.