Fridtjof Island

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Fridtjof Island is an island lying 2.4 km (1.5 mi) northeast of Vázquez Island, off the southeast side of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago. It was discovered and named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99. [1] It is among several islands charted and named by this expedition in 1898, before their ship crossed the Antarctic Circle on 15 February. [2]

Vázquez Island is an island lying between Fridtjof and Bob islands, off the southeast side of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago. It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under J.B. Charcot, 1903-05. The name appears on an Argentine government chart of 1950.

Wiencke Island Antarctic island

Wiencke Island is an island 26 km (16 mi) long and from 3 to 8 km wide, about 67 km2 (26 sq mi) in area, the southernmost of the major islands of the Palmer Archipelago, lying between Anvers Island to its north across the Neumayer Channel and the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula to its east across the Gerlache Strait.

Palmer Archipelago Group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula

Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anvers Island in the south. It is separated by the Gerlache and Bismarck straits from the Antarctic Peninsula and Wilhelm Archipelago, respectively.

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References

  1. "Fridtjof Island". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2012-04-10.
  2. R. K. Headland (1989). Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events. Cambridge University Press. p. 221.

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