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Alectoria Island

Coordinates: 63°59′S 58°37′W / 63.983°S 58.617°W / -63.983; -58.617
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Alectoria Island
Map
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates63°59′S 58°37′W / 63.983°S 58.617°W / -63.983; -58.617
Administration
None
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

Alectoria Island is a low, nearly ice-free island less than 2 kilometres (1 nmi) long. It lies in Prince Gustav Channel, about 1 kilometre (0.5 nmi) off the terminus of Aitkenhead Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. It was surveyed in 1945 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who named it after the lichen Alectoria which was predominant on the island at the time.[1]

See also

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

  1. ^ "Alectoria Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-05-07.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Alectoria Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.