Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Kianida Reef (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kianida Reef (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Reef
This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The 350 m long in E-W direction and 140 m wide, narrowing to the E rocky reef lying in Osogovo Bay, off the SE extremity of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands. Surface area 4 ha. Centred 440 m SW of Radev Point, 1.65 km WSW of Astor Island and 3.5 km NNW of Devils Point on Livingston Island.
Named after the phantom island of Kianida or Cianeis off the Black Sea coast of Thrace, depicted on a 1467 map by Nicolaus Germanus based on Claudius Ptolemy's Geography.
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