Bear Island (Antarctica)
| Bear Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 11 ′ 6 ″ S , 67 ° 2 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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| length | 5 km | |
| width | 5 km | |
| surface | 25 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 385 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Bear Island , called Isla Teniente González in Chile , is a rocky and mostly ice-covered island off the Fallières coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . In Marguerite Bay , it is 1.5 km west of Stonington Island .
The islands were probably already known to participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill and scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941). The Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey took measurements of the island in 1947 and named it after the USS Bear , one of the two research vessels of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). At the same time, scientists from the 1st Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1946–1947) located the island and named it after Jorge González Baeza, a member of the expedition.
Web links
- Bear Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bear Island on geographic.org (English)