Brockhamp Islands
| Brockhamp Islands | ||
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| Waters | Laubeuf Fjord | |
| archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 18 ′ S , 67 ° 57 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
The Brockhamp Islands are one of two small islands existing group west of the Arrowsmith Peninsula on Loubet Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located 5 km southwest of Mothes Point on Adelaide Island in the northern part of the Laubeuf Fjord between the entrances to Stonehouse Bay in the south and Malle Bay in the north.
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it on the basis of its measurements carried out between 1948 and 1950 as well as aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the islands incorrectly after the German geophysicist and polar explorer Bernhard Brockamp , who carried out extensive seismic surveys on the Greenland ice sheet with Kurt Wölcken in 1931 .
Web links
- Brockhamp Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brockhamp Islands on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Weiken : Professor Dr. Bernhard Brockamp's services to German polar research and to the Society for Polar Research (PDF; 298 kB). In: Polar Research . Volume 38, 1968, pp. 190-193.