Christensen Nunatak
| Christensen Nunatak | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Seal Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 5 '40 " S , 59 ° 32' 41" W | |
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| length | 3.9 km | |
| width | 3.8 km | |
| surface | 12 km² | |
The Christensen Nunatak (also Christensen volcano ) is an approximately 300 m high island - also described as Nunatak - off the Nordenskjöld coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.5 km north of Robertson Island in the Seal Islands group .
It was discovered in 1893 by the Norwegian whaler and Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen . Larsen named him after Christian Fredrik Christensen (1845-1923), a Norwegian pioneer of whaling in the Antarctic and father of the Antarctic explorer Lars Christensen . Geodetic surveys were carried out in 1902 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) and in 1947 and 1953 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey .
Web links
- Christensen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Christensen Nunatak on geographic.org (English)