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Kianida Reef

Kianida Reef (, ) is the 350 m long in east-west direction and 140 m wide, narrowing to the east rocky reef lying in Osogovo Bay, off the southeast extremity of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands. Its surface area is 4 ha. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The feature is named after the phantom island of Kianida or Cianeis off the Black Sea coast of Thrace, featured on a 1467 map by Nicolaus Germanus based on Claudius Ptolemy's Geography.

Location

Kianida Reef is located at , which is 440 m southwest of Radev Point, 1.65 km west-southwest of Astor Island and 3.5 km north-northwest of Devils Point on Livingston Island. Detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.

Maps

  • Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992
  • L. Ivanov. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
  • L. Ivanov. . Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

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