Alectoria Island
| Alectoria Island | ||
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| Waters | Prince Gustav Canal | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 59 ′ S , 58 ° 38 ′ W | |
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| length | <2 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Alectoria Island is an island in the Prince Gustav Channel between the Antarctic Peninsula and James Ross Island . It is less than 2 km long, flat and almost free of ice. The island is about 1 km from the mouth of the Aitkenhead Glacier .
Alectoria Island was explored by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1945 and named after the lichen species Alectoria antarctica that was predominant on the island at the time.
Web links
- Alectoria Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Alectoria Island on geographic.org (English)