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Melyane Island

Location of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°28′44.2″S 60°11′23″W / 62.478944°S 60.18972°W / -62.478944; -60.18972
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Melyane Island (Bulgarian: остров Меляне, romanized: ostrov Melyane) is the southernmost of Dunbar Islands off Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. The feature is ice-free, extending 280 m in southeast-northwest direction and 90 m wide. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The island is named after the settlement of Melyane in Northwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Melyane Island is located at 62°28′44.2″S 60°11′23″W / 62.478944°S 60.18972°W / -62.478944; -60.18972, which is 250 m south of Balsha Island, 1.27 km west of Slab Point and 2.52 km north-northeast of Kotis Point, Livingston Island. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN: 978-954-92032-6-4 (Second edition 2010, ISBN: 978-954-92032-9-5)