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{{Infobox island
|name=Craggy Island
|territory=British Antarctic Territory
|group=South Shetland Islands
|picture=Desolation-Island.jpg
|picture caption=Desolation Group from Livingston: Craggy Island (R)
|latitude=-62.462
|longitude=-60.29366
|map=Craggy Island (inset), South Shetland Islands, BAT.svg
|area=22 acres
|highest height=
}}
'''Craggy Island''' is a narrow island amongst the [[South Shetland Islands]] in the [[British Antarctic Territory]].  It is marked by crags, hence its name, and lies in [[Hero Bay]] of [[Livingston Island]], forming the northeast side of [[Blythe Bay]].  The surface area of Craggy Island is just {{convert|9|ha|acre|0|x}}.<ref>L.L. Ivanov. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands]. Scale 1:120000 topographic map.  Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.  ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4</ref>)  The area was frequented by early nineteenth century British and American sealers operating from Blythe Bay.

The isle was charted and named descriptively by Discovery Investigations in 1935.

==Location==
The island is 1,000 yards east-southeast of [[Desolation Island, South Shetland Islands|Desolation Island]], five miles west-southwest of [[Williams Point]], a mile and a half north by east of [[Wood Island, South Shetland Islands|Wood Island]] and 7.3 miles northeast of [[Siddins Point]] (British mapping in 1821, 1935, 1948 and 1968 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

==Miscellaneous==
"Craggy Island" is the name given to the fictional island on the west coast of [[Ireland]] where the sitcom ''Father Ted'' is set.  The rival island appearing in a number episodes is ''Rugged Island'' – and there is also a genuine [[Rugged Island]] amongst the South Shetland Islands.

==Outside links==
*{{BATgaz}}

==References==
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{{South Shetlands}}