Castor Island
| Castor Island | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Seal Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 10 ′ S , 59 ° 56 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 155 m | |
The Castor Island (also Castor Nunatak ) is an island up to 155 m high off the east coast of Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 5 km southwest of the western tip of Robertson Island in the seal islands group .
It was discovered and mapped in December 1893 during the whaling expedition (1892-1894) of the Norwegian whaler and Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen . Larsen named her after the Castor , a whaling ship on this expedition under Captain Morten Pedersen. While Larsen classified the elevations, which were then surrounded by ice shelves, as islands, participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902 under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld thought they were Nunatakkers . Since then, the Castor Island has also been called Castor Nunatak, although the surrounding Larsen Ice Shelf has disintegrated since 1995.
Web links
- Castor island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Castor Nunatak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Satellite observes rapidly melting ice shelf in Antarctica , report from April 10, 2012 on the European Space Agency's website , accessed on March 28, 2016