Andersson Island
| Andersson Island | ||
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| Waters | Antarctic Sound , Weddell Sea | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 35 ′ S , 56 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| length | 11 km | |
| width | 6 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Andersson Island (in Argentina Isla Uruguay ) is an island off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located around 1 km south of Jonassen Island on the west side of the southern entrance to the Antarctic Sound .
After the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903) under Otto Nordenskjöld , it was named Île de l'Uruguay after the Argentine corvette Uruguay , which was involved in rescuing the stranded expedition members. In 1904, the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named another island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula as the Uruguay Island, unaware of the naming of this island by Nordenskjöld . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names took over the decision of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1953 to keep Charcot's designation due to the distribution on maps and to rename the island described here. It is named after Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960), deputy head of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition. On Argentine maps, on the other hand, like the Uruguay Island, it is recorded in Spanish translation under its original name.
Web links
- Andersson Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Andersson Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 56 and 1623 (English)
- ↑ Uruguay, isla (Estrecho Antarctico) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on February 1, 2018