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 hectares (57 acres)[1] and rises to 72 m (236 ft). 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.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.