Alectoria Island

Alectoria Island

Location of Trinity Peninsula
Alectoria Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	63°59′S 58°37′W
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Alectoria Island is a low, nearly ice-free island less than 2 kilometres (1 nmi) long. It lies in Prince Gustav Channel, about 1 kilometre (0.5 nmi) off the terminus of Aitkenhead Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. It was surveyed in 1945 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who named it after the lichen Alectoria which was predominant on the island at the time.

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Alectoria Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.