Anchorage Island (Princess Elisabeth Land)
| Anchorage Island | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 34 '37 " S , 77 ° 52' 20" E | |
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| length | 1 km | |
| width | 500 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Anchorage Island (from English anchorage , anchorage ) is an approximately 1 km long and 500 m wide uninhabited island in Antarctica . It is located about 2 km northwest of Davis Station in the Vestfold Mountains off the Ingrid-Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land .
The island was first mapped by Norwegian cartographers using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The name is derived from the ships that used the island as an anchorage to supply Davis Station.
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 53 (English).