Alfeus Island
| Alfeus Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 52 '12 " S , 62 ° 18' 53" W | |
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| length | 310 m | |
| width | 120 m | |
Alfeus Island (English; Bulgarian остров Алфеус ostrow Alfeus ) is a rocky island in the west-southwest-east-northeast orientation 310 m long and 120 m wide off the north coast of Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 0.66 km northwest of Cape Smith , 3.7 km east-northeast of Delyan Point and 1.06 km east-southeast of Barlow Island .
Bulgarian scientists mapped them in 2009 and 2018. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2018 after the trawler Alfeus , who used to fish in the waters around South Georgia , around the Kerguelen , around the southern one from the 1970s to the early 1990s Orkney Islands , the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula .
Web links
- Alfeus Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)