Saffar Island
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saffar-island-172-5640665
title:
Saffar Island
text:
Saffar Island is the rocky island off the north coast of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 290 m in west–east direction and 230 m in south–north direction, with a surface area of 3.64 ha. It is separated from Elephant Island by a passage narrowing to 325 m at points. The feature is named after Abū al-Qāsim Ahmad ibn as-Saffār, an Andalusī astronomer and author of one of the Arabic treatises on the astrolabe that introduced the triangulation method to Europe; in
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Antarctic island
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffar_Island
date created:
2021-05-25T16:03:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T19:23:44Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Elephant_Island_map-en.svg","width":702,"height":433}
fields total:
13
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16