Aspasia Island
| Aspasia Island | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 20 ′ S , 37 ° 6 ′ W | |
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Aspasia Island is a tussock- overgrown island in the archipelago of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It is located south of Aspasia Point .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2009 based on the name of the headland of the same name. It is named after the corvette Aspasia , with which the German-born commercial traveler Edmund Fanning transported 57,000 seal skins from South Georgia between 1800 and 1801.
Web links
- Aspasia Island . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)