Feya Tarn

Feya Tarn
Feya Tarn
	Feya Tarn
Location	Livingston Island, Antarctica
Coordinates	62°38′27″S 61°00′44.5″W / 62.64083°S 61.012361°W
Lake type	Glacial lake
Primary outflows	Eridanus Stream
Max. length	65 metres (213 ft)
Max. width	60 metres (200 ft)
Surface area	0.28 hectares (0.69 acres)

Feya Tarn (Bulgarian: езеро Фея, romanized: ezero Feya, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro ˈfɛjɐ]) is the oval-shaped 65 m long in south–north direction and 60 m wide tarn on eastern Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 0.28 ha and drains northwards into Barclay Bay by way of Eridanus Stream.^[1]

The feature is named after the mythical creatures in European folklore, Feya being the Bulgarian for Fay, Fairy.^[1]

Location[edit]

Feya Tarn is centred at 62°38′27″S 61°00′44.5″W / 62.64083°S 61.012361°W / -62.64083; -61.012361, which is 3.15 km south-southeast of Lair Point, 1.75 m south-southwest of Sparadok Point and 500 m west-southwest of Tsamblak Hill. Detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.

Península Byers, Isla Livingston. 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, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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