Alcheh Island ( bg, остров Алшех, ostrov Alcheh, ) is the ice-covered island in the
Barcroft group of
Biscoe Islands
Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud, Lavoisier (named ''Serrano'' by Chile and ''Mitre'' by Argentina), Watkins, Krogh, Pickwick and Rabot, lying parallel to the west coast of Graham Land and extending ...
in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
900 m long in south-southwest to north-northeast direction and 340 m wide. Its surface area is 21.72 ha.
The feature is named after the
Bulgarian Argentine
The Bulgarian diaspora includes Bulgarians living outside Bulgaria and its surrounding countries, as well as immigrants from Bulgaria abroad.
The number of Bulgarians outside Bulgaria has sharply increased since 1989, following the Revolutions ...
architect Deiana Alcheh for her support for the infrastructure development of the Bulgarian Antarctic base.
Location
Alcheh Island is centred at ,
[Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.]
Antarctic Place-names Commission which is 1.95 km southeast of
Watkins Island
Watkins Island is a low lying, ice-covered island long, lying southwest of Lavoisier Island in the Biscoe Islands. The island was first mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1903–05 and 1908–10, but remai ...
, 305 m west of
Irving Island
Irving Island () is a small island at the northeastern end of the Barcroft Islands, in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is situated 1.18 km east of St. Brigid Island and 1.9 km north of St. Isidore Island. The island was mapped from a ...
and 500 m east of
St. Brigid Island. British mapping in 1976.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory.Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1976
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
See also
*
List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
Notes
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
External links
Alcheh Island.Adjusted Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Biscoe Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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