Bruce Island
| Bruce Island | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 53 '52 " S , 63 ° 7' 10" W | |
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| length | 1.6 km | |
| width | 760 m | |
| surface | 1 km² | |
Bruce Island is an island off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 800 meters from the southwest corner of Bryde Island on Gerlache Street .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered the island. Your name is first found in reports by the Scottish geologist David Ferguson (1857-1936), who explored the area around the island in 1913 from aboard the whaler Hanka . Namesake is the Scottish polar explorer William Speirs Bruce (1867-1921), leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904).
Web links
- Bruce Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bruce Island on geographic.org (English)