Back Torre (pulo) CEB Cecilia Island German Cecilia Island NN Cecilia Island NB Cecilia Island Swedish 塞西莉亞島 Chinese
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 Location of Cecilia Island | |
  Cecilia Island  Cecilia Island | |
| Geography | |
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| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 62°24′46.2″S 59°43′42.6″W / 62.412833°S 59.728500°W |
| Archipelago | Aitcho group |
| Area | 36 ha (89 acres) |
| Length | 910 m (2990 ft) |
| Width | 450 m (1480 ft) |
| Administration | |
| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | uninhabited |
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).[1] 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.
- ^ 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