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Cecilia Island is the ice-free southernmost island of the Aitcho group on the west side of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending Шаблон:Convert, surface area Шаблон:Convert.[1] The area, visited by American and English sealers in the early 19th century, nowadays has become a popular tourist site frequented by Antarctic cruise ships.

The feature's name derives from 'Cecilias Straits' applied to English Strait by Captain John Davis after the shallop Cecilia, tender to his ship Huron that visited the South Shetlands in 1820–22. It was from the Cecilia that the first landing on the Antarctic mainland was made at Hughes Bay on 7 February 1821.

Location

The midpoint is located at Шаблон:Coord and the island is lying Шаблон:Convert north of Spark Point, Greenwich Island, Шаблон:Convert east-northeast of Dee Island, Шаблон:Convert southeast of Barrientos Island, Шаблон:Convert southwest of Debelyanov Point, Robert Island and Шаблон:Convert west of Negra Point, Robert Island (Chilean mapping in 1961, British in 1968, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

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Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

See also

Map

References

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External links

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  1. L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. Шаблон:ISBN