Alectoria Island

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]

Alectoria Island
Location of Trinity Peninsula
Alectoria Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates63°59′S 58°37′W
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

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
  1. "Alectoria Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-05-07.

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