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 (South Shetland Islands)|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
- Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992
- L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010.
- L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
- Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated