Andresen Island
| Andresen Island | ||
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| Waters | Lallemand Fjord | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 53 '7 " S , 66 ° 40' 49" W | |
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| length | 3 km | |
| Highest elevation | 610 m | |
The Andresen Island ( French Île Andresen ) is a 3 km long and over 610 m high island off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in the middle of the entrance to Lallemand Fjord .
It was discovered during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910). The expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named it after the Norwegian Adolf Amandus Andresen (1872-1940), managing director of the whaling company Sociedad Ballenera de Magallanes in Punta Arenas , Chile , who provided coal on Deception Island for the research trip .
Web links
- Andresen Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Andresen Island on geographic.org (English)