La Ronciere Island
La Ronciere Island | ||
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The east of Franz Josef Land with La Ronciere Island | ||
Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
Archipelago | Franz Josef Land | |
Geographical location | 81 ° 0 ′ N , 60 ° 52 ′ E | |
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length | 29 km | |
width | 19 km | |
surface | 478 km² | |
Highest elevation | 431 m | |
Residents | uninhabited |
The La Ronciere Island ( Russian Остров Ла-Ронсьер , Ostrow La-Ronsjer ) is an uninhabited island of the arctic Franz Josef Land belonging to Russia .
It lies in the east of the archipelago and is separated from the Wilczek Land to the south by the 10 km wide Vanderbilt Strait. Arthur Island is 478 km² and is covered by an ice cap up to 431 m high, except for the coastal region around Cape Hitt in the northeast and the western Cape Mys Rogaty .
The La Ronciere Island was discovered by the Austro-Hungarian North Polar Expedition (1872–1874) and considered a peninsula of Wilczek Land. Julius Payer named it after Camille de La Roncière-Le Noury (1816–1881), the president of the French Société de Géographie . Their island character only recognized Evelyn Briggs Baldwin , who drove a dog sled through Vanderbilt Street during the Walter Wellman Expedition (1898–1899) . Wellman's naming of the island after William Collins Whitney , a financier of his expedition, did not last.
Individual evidence
- ↑ LaRonciere Insel on the website www.franz-josef-land.info , accessed on July 4, 2017.
- ↑ Peter J. Capelotti: EB Baldwin and the American-Norwegian discovery and exploration of Graham Bell Island, 1899 . In: Polar Research . Volume 25, No. 2, 2006, pp. 155-171. doi : 10.3402 / polar.v25i2.6245
- ^ Peter J. Capelotti: The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905 . University of Oklahoma Press, Norman (Oklahoma) 2016, ISBN 978-0-8061-5222-6 , pp. 185 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
Web links
- Topographic map of the island at a scale of 1: 200,000