Feniks Island
| Feniks Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 49 '36.5 " S , 60 ° 57' 53" W | |
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| length | 230 m | |
| width | 170 m | |
Feniks Island (English; Bulgarian остров Феникс ostrow Feniks ) is a rocky, east-west orientation 230 m long and 170 m wide island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 3.96 km northwest of Bulnes Point , 1.27 km north of Melanita Island and 5.8 km west of Romero Point off Spert Island on the southwest side of Trinity Island .
British Scientists mapped 1978. The Bulgarian Antarctic Place-names Commission named it the 2018 after the trawler Feniks , who from the 1970s to the early 1990s for industrial fishing in the waters around South Georgia , the Kerguelen , the South Orkney Islands , the Southern Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula was deployed.
Web links
- Feniks Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)