Melanita Island
| Melanita Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 50 ′ 27 " S , 60 ° 58 ′ 21" W | |
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| length | 780 m | |
| width | 400 m | |
Melanita Island (English; Bulgarian остров Меланита ostrow Melanita ) is a rocky, southwest-northeast orientation 780 m long and 400 m wide island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 0.27 km northwest of Spert Island , 3 km northwest of Bulnes Point and 6.15 km west-southwest of Romero Point off the southwest side of Trinity Island .
British Scientists mapped 1978. The Bulgarian Antarctic Place-names Commission named it the 2018 after the trawler melanita that 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
- Melanita Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)