Feniks Island ( bg, остров Феникс, ostrov Feniks, ) is the 230 m long in west–east direction and 170 m wide in south–north direction rocky island lying off

Spert Island Spert or SPERT may refer to: * Thomas Spert (died 1547), English vice admiral in service to King Henry VIII * Robert Spert, English Member of Parliament for New Shoreham in 1460 * Spert Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, named after Thomas ...

on the southwest side of

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in the

Palmer Archipelago Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anvers ...

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. It is “named after the ocean

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''Feniks'' of the Bulgarian company

Ocean Fisheries – Burgas Ocean Fisheries – Burgas Co was a Bulgarian company founded in 1964 and based in the Black Sea port city of Burgas, whose ocean fishing trawler, trawlers and factory ship, freezer vessels undertook fishing voyages in the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, ...

whose ships operated in the waters of

South Georgia South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east� ...

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, the

South Orkney Islands The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

and

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from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the

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and

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are the pioneers of modern Antarctic

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.”

Location

Feniks Island is located at , which is 4.75 km northeast of

Bulnes Point Bulnes may refer to: People * Eduardo Pérez Bulnes (1785–1851), Argentine statesman * Francisco Bulnes (politician) (1847–1924), Mexican intellectual * Manuel Bulnes (1799–1866), Chilean military and political figure * Manuel Bulnes Pinto ...

, 1.38 km northwest of

Melanita Island Melanita Island ( bg, остров Меланита, ostrov Melanita, ) is the 780 m long in southwest-northeast direction and 400 m wide rocky island lying off Spert Island on the southwest side of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archip ...

and 7.6 km west of

Romero Point The name Romero is a nickname type of surname for a Roman or an Italian. The name was originally derived from the Latin word Romaeus and the Greek word Romaios, which mean Roman. #A person on a religious journey or pilgrimage from Rome (possibly t ...

. British mapping in 1978.

Maps

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 – W 63 60. Tolworth, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

References

Feniks Island.

SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a na ...

Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...

.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Feniks Island.
Copernix satellite image Islands of the Palmer Archipelago Ocean Fisheries – Burgas Co Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{PalmerArchipelago-geo-stub