Alectoria Island
Location of Trinity Peninsula.
Alectoria Island (63°59′S 58°37′W / 63.983°S 58.617°WCoordinates: 63°59′S 58°37′W / 63.983°S 58.617°W) is a low, nearly ice-free island less than 1 nautical mile (2 km) long. It lies in Prince Gustav Channel, about 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) 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
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
References
- ↑ "Alectoria Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Alectoria Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).