Bremen Island
| Bremen Island | ||
|---|---|---|
| Waters | Dallmann Bay | |
| Archipelago | Melchior Islands | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 19 '12 " S , 62 ° 56' 9" W | |
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| length | 1 km | |
| width | 1 km | |
| surface | 1 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 50 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Bremen Island (in the United Kingdom Zeta Island ) is an approximately 1 km² large, 95% ice-covered, uninhabited island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Melchior Islands , it is located southwest of the Eta Island and northwest of the Omega Island . It is separated from the former by the Borrowman Canal , from the latter by the Bremen Canal . To the north it is bordered by Andersen Harbor and to the west by The Sound .
discovery
The island is named after the cruise ship Bremen , from which the passengers and crew of an inflatable boat discovered the narrow, approximately 1 km long canal on February 2, 2003 , which made the adjacent part recognizable as an independent island instead of on sea charts as it was before referred to as part of the neighboring Omega island. The canal is now officially called the Bremenkanal.
Web links
- Interview with the expedition leader Henryk Wolski at geo.de
- Message from tagesschau.de (with map) ( Memento from July 22, 2010 on WebCite )
- Standing Committee on Geographic Names : New German-Language Name Proposals , No. 714
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zeta Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (accessed April 29, 2019).