Taralezh Island

65°03′44″S 64°06′27″W / 65.06222°S 64.10750°W / -65.06222; -64.10750ArchipelagoWilhelm ArchipelagoArea6.71 ha (16.6 acres)Length470 m (1540 ft)Width232 m (761 ft)AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationuninhabited

Taralezh Island (Bulgarian: остров Таралеж, romanized: ostrov Taralezh, IPA: [ˈɔstrof tɐrɐˈɫɛʒ]) is the partly ice-free island 470 m long in west–east direction and 232 km wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 6.71 ha.^[1]

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a hedgehog ('taralezh' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.^[1]

Taralezh Island is located at 65°03′44″S 64°06′27″W / 65.06222°S 64.10750°W / -65.06222; -64.10750, which is 45 m north of Spatnik Island, 2.4 km east-southeast of Sprey Island, 1.67 km southwest of Revolver Island and 2.54 km west-northwest of the west extremity of Booth Island. British mapping in 2001.

• 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

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

• Taralezh Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

• Taralezh Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.