Snake Island

snake +‎ island

Snake Island

1. Any of several islands with the name

   Synonym: Snake

Map including OSTRIV ZMIYINYY (UKRAINE) (DMA, 2000)

Calque of Ukrainian о́стрів Змії́ний (óstriv Zmijínyj, “Snake Island”) or Russian о́стров Змеи́ный (óstrov Zmeínyj, “Snake Island”), from Romanian Insula Șerpilor (“Serpent Island”), from from Byzantine Greek Φιδονήσι (Phidonḗsi, “Snake Isle”), from Byzantine Greek φιδο (phido, “snake”) (Greek φίδι (fídi)) + νήσι (nísi, “island”).

Snake Island

1. An island in Budjak, on the Black Sea, at the Danue Delta, Danube River in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine, on the border with Romania
   • 2006, Rongxing Guo, Territorial Disputes and Resource Management: A Global Handbook‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 224:

     SNAKE ISLAND
     Located in the northwestern side of the Black Sea, Snake Island, or called ostriv Zmiyinyy in Ukrainian and Insula Serpilor in Romanian, is currently administered by Ukraine but claimed by Romania. The Snake Island is a limestone formation located 35 km from the coast, east of the mouth of the Danube River.

   • 2013 June, Michael A. McDevitt, Catherine K. Lea, Japan's Territorial Disputes: CNA Maritime Asia Project, Workshop Three‎, CNA, →OCLC, page 9:

     In the Snake Island case, the court ruled that Snake Island—which is a territory of Ukraine, but is in the Black Sea on the maritime boundary with Romania— would not be given a full exclusive economic zone (EEZ) because that would distort the maritime boundary with Romania. In this way, the court ensured an equitable result of the maritime boundary between Romania and Ukraine.

   • 2022 February 26, Dan Lamothe, “Ukrainian border guards may have survived reported last stand on Snake Island”, in Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 28 February 2022:

     The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said in a statement posted to its Facebook page that the guards may be alive, after Russian media reported that they were taken as prisoners from their base on Snake Island in the Black Sea to Sevastopol, a port city that Russia controls on the Crimean Peninsula.

   • 2022 July 7, “Ukrainian troops land on Snake Island to raise national flag”, in Al Jazeera‎, archived from the original on 07 July 2022:

     Ukrainian troops have landed on Snake Island where they raised Ukraine’s flag, according to officials, one week after Russian forces withdrew from the strategic islet in the Black Sea.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Snake Island.