Beagle Island (Antarctica)
| Beagle Island | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Danger Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 25 ′ S , 54 ° 40 ′ W | |
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Beagle Iceland (in Argentina Islote Sarandi , in Chile Islote Bertil ) is an island in the group of the Danger Islands before the eastern end of Joinville Island at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located northeast of Darwin Island , north of Plato Island and east of Peine Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1963 after the HMS Beagle with which the British naturalist Charles Darwin traveled around the world from 1831 to 1836. The geographical proximity of the island to Darwin Island was decisive for the name. The namesake of the Argentine name is the battle of Sarandí in 1825 between the victorious troops of the Banda Oriental and the Brazilian Empire . The namesake of the Chilean name is the Swedish geologist and glaciologist Bertil Frödin from Uppsala University , guest scientist of the 5th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1950–1951).
Web links
- Beagle Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Beagle Island on geographic.org (English)