D'Urville Island
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Joinville Islands ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 5 ′ S , 56 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| length | 27 km | |
| surface | 455.3 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 210 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The D'Urville Island ( French Ile d'Urville , English D'Urville Iceland , spanish Isla d'Urville ) is the most northerly of the Graham Land upstream Joinville Island group . The island is 27 km long, around 455 km² in size and reaches a height of 210 m above sea level. It lies immediately north of, both are separated by the Larsen Canal .
A rough map of the west coast of the then unnamed island can already be found on maps by Edward Bransfield from February 1820. During the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) it was sighted, but mistakenly believed to be part of Joinville Island . It was not recognized as an independent land mass until December 1902 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under Otto Nordenskjöld . Nordenskjöld named the island as Île d'Urville after Jules Dumont d'Urville , the French explorer who discovered the Joinville Islands in 1838.
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out geodetic surveys of the island in 1946 and 1954. In Chilean maps from 1948 it can be found as Isla Henrique Mac Iver after the Chilean politician Enrique Mac Iver (1844–1922).
See also
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 468 (English)
Web links
- D'Urville Island at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)
- D'Urville Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- D'Urville Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ UNEP Islands Directory (English)