Astrolabe Needle
| Astrolabe Needle | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 7 ′ S , 62 ° 38 ′ W | |
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The Astrolabe Needle ( French Aiguille de l'Astrolabe translated astrolabes needle ) is a striking monolithic Rifffelsen off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Palmer Archipelago , it rises 50 m from the sea south of Cape Claude on the Brabant Island and belongs to Area No. 153 of the Specially Protected Areas of the Antarctic .
The rocky island was discovered during the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named it after the Astrolabe , one of the two ships of the polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville on the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee converted the French name into English on January 22, 1951.
Web links
- Astrolabe Needle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Astrolabe Needle on geographic.org (English)
- Damien Gildea: Antarctic Peninsula - Mountaineering in Antarctica , Pimento, 2015, ISBN 2511031361 , p. 32 (photo) , accessed from Google Books
- Map with the Astrolabe Needle in front of Brabant Island on the homepage of the Secretariat for the Antarctic Treaty
- Photo of the rock on polarimages.dk
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 85.