Booth Island
| Booth Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 4 ′ 30 ″ S , 64 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | 8 kilometers | |
| width | 6 km | |
| Highest elevation |
Change Peak 980 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Booth Island (formerly convertible Island ) is a rocky, Y-shaped, eight-kilometer island in the Antarctic . It is the largest island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast in the west of the Antarctic Peninsula , from which it is separated by the Lemaire Channel .
The island was discovered and named by a German expedition led by Eduard Dallmann in January 1874. It was probably named after the members of the Hamburg Geographical Society, Oskar Booth and Stanley Booth.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names rejected the name "Wandel-Insel", which the island had received from the Belgica expedition under the direction of Adrien de Gerlache 1897-1899 in honor of the Danish hydrograph Carl Frederik Wandel (1843-1930) In favor of the original naming. The narrow passage between the island and the mainland is the scenic Lemaire Channel . The French Antarctic expedition with the schooner Français , led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot, wintered in a bay on Booth Island in 1904. Today the "stone mound" Charcots built at the time is protected as a historical site .
The highest point on the island is Wandel Peak with a height of 980 m, which was first climbed in February 2010 by the French climbers Mathieu Cortial, Lionel Daudet and Patrick Wagnon after a few previous attempts had failed.
literature
Damien Gildea: Climbs and Expeditions: Antarctic Peninsula , in John Harlin: The American Alpine Journal 2003. Mountaineers Books, Seattle 2003.
Web links
- Booth Island in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
- Atlas of Antarctic Research, US Geological Survey
Individual evidence
- ↑ Damien Gildea: 2009–10 Antarctic Peninsula summary ( memento of the original from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The American Alpine Journal 84 (52), 2010, pp. 193-199
