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    Cecilia Island

    62°25′S 59°44′W

    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 910 by 450 m (1,000 by 490 yd), surface area 36 hectares (89 acres).

    Picture published by the author Lyubomir Ivanov.
    Picture published by the author Lyubomir Ivanov.

    No machine-readable author provided. Apcbg assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 3.0

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    Overview

    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 910 by 450 m (1,000 by 490 yd), surface area 36 hectares (89 acres). 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.

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    Nearest islands

    Also in Aitcho Islands

    Also in South Shetland Islands

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    Facts

    • Geometry, areas and high points: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Copernicus GLO-30, via Talus.
    • Talus
    • Wikidata
    • Wikipedia

    Photographs

    • Cecilia-Island. No machine-readable author provided. Apcbg assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 3.0