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Alfeus Island

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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°52′12.4″S 62°18′53″W / 62.870111°S 62.31472°W / -62.870111; -62.31472
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Length	310 m (1020 ft)
Width	120 m (390 ft)
Administration
Antarctica
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Alfeus Island (Bulgarian: остров Алфеус, romanized: ostrov Alfeus, IPA: [ˈɔstrof ɐɫˈfɛos]) is the 310 m long in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 120 m wide rocky island lying off the north coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

The island is “named after the ocean fishing trawler Alfeus of the Bulgarian company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas whose ships operated in the waters of South Georgia, Kerguelen, the South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany are the pioneers of modern Antarctic fishing industry.”

Location

Alfeus Island is located at 62°52′12.4″S 62°18′53″W / 62.870111°S 62.31472°W / -62.870111; -62.31472, which is 660 m northwest of Cape Smith, 3.7 km east-northeast of Delyan Point and 1.06 km east-southeast of Barlow Island. Bulgarian mapping in 2018.

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017; updated 2018.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

1. "SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica". data.aad.gov.au. Retrieved 26 December 2018.

References

• Alfeus Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Alfeus Island. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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