Melyane Island

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Melyane Island
Balsha Island (middle) with the smaller Melyane Island in front of it
Balsha Island (middle) with the smaller Melyane Island in front of it
Waters Hero Bay
Archipelago Dunbar Islands , South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 62 ° 28 '44 "  S , 60 ° 11' 23"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 28 '44 "  S , 60 ° 11' 23"  W
Melyane Island (South Shetland Islands)
Melyane Island
length 280 m
width 90 m

Melyane Island (English; Bulgarian остров Меляне ostrow Meljane ) is an ice-free island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands, 280 m long and 90 m wide in a southeast-northwest orientation . As the southernmost of the Dunbar Islands off the northeast coast of Livingston Island , it is 1.27 km west of Slab Point and 2.52 km northeast of Kotis Point .

British scientists mapped it in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Meljane in northwestern Bulgaria .

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