Danco Island
| Danco Island | ||
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| Waters | Errera Canal | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 44 '2 " S , 62 ° 35' 38" W | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
Danco Island (in Argentina Isla Dedo , translated finger island ) is a 1.5 km long island off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in the southern section of the Errera Canal .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery mapped them. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements on board the Norwegian sealer MV Norsel in 1955 and on board the RRS Shackleton between 1956 and 1957 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1957 based on the naming of the coast of the same name after the Belgian geophysicist Émile Danco (1869–1898), who died of heart disease on the Belgica expedition.
Web links
- Danco Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Danco Island on geographic.org (English)