Challenger Island
| Challenger Island | ||
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| Waters | Murray Harbor | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 21 ′ S , 61 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Challenger Island (in Argentina Isla Chica , Spanish for tiny island ; in Chile Isla Farías ; English Challenger Island ) is an island north of the Murray Island off the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula .
The name goes back to Johan Gunnar Andersson in 1906, participant in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903) under Otto Nordenskjöld . It is named after the HMS Challenger , research ship of the expedition of the same name (1872–1876). Under Isla Chica it is first recorded on an Argentine map from 1954. The namesake of the Chilean name is Adolfo de Carmen Farías, participant in the 16th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1961–1962). The transfer of the island name into the English form was carried out by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee on September 23, 1960 and was operated in 1965 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names .
Web links
- Challenger Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Challenger Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ F. Richter: Moosbewohner. In: Scientific results of the Swedish South Polar Expedition 1901–1903. Published by Otto Nordenskjöld, Volume 6, Delivery 2, Lithographisches Institut des Generalstabs, Stockholm 1908, p. 3 (accessed from the Internet Archive on October 22, 2018).
- ^ E. Marcus: Arthropoda: Tardigrada. In: The animal kingdom. Edited by Heinz Wermuth et al., 66th delivery, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Leipzig 1936, p. 132 (retrieved from Google Books on October 23, 2018).
- ^ A b c John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 301 (English).