Maida Island

Image of Maida Island (above and to the left of the center of the image), based on radar sounding by the Cassini spacecraft , February 22, 2007.

Map of the Kraken Sea. Maida Island is located at the top of the image (although this map does not show what the island is).

Mayda ( Mayda Insula ) - an island on Titan , the largest satellite of Saturn . It is surrounded by the Kraken Sea , the largest of the "seas" and "lakes" of Titan . In the images transmitted by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft , the island looks like a bright spot against the background of the dark sea of ​​Kraken, consisting of a liquid mixture of hydrocarbons with dissolved nitrogen and other impurities.

The island is located in the northern (subpolar) part of the Kraken Sea. The center of the island has coordinates ^[1] . The size of the island is 150 × 90 km. Named after the ghost island of Maida , supposedly located in the northeast Atlantic Ocean .