Dellbridge Islands

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Dellbridge Islands
Aerial view of the archipelago: Tent Island, Inaccessible Island, Big Razorback, Little Razorback. In the foreground the Erebus glacier tongue
Aerial view of the archipelago: Tent Island, Inaccessible Island, Big Razorback, Little Razorback. In the foreground the Erebus glacier tongue
Waters Erebus Bay ( Ross Sea )
archipelago Ross Archipelago
Geographical location 77 ° 40 ′  S , 166 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 77 ° 40 ′  S , 166 ° 26 ′  E
Dellbridge Islands (Antarctica)
Dellbridge Islands
Number of islands 4th
Main island Tent Island
Total land area 1.5 km²
Residents uninhabited

The Dellbridge Islands ( English Dellbridge Islands ) are a group of four small volcanic islands in the Southern Ocean that belong to the Antarctic Ross Archipelago .

The archipelago consists of the uninhabited islands of Inaccessible Island , Tent Island , Big Razorback and Little Razorback . The islands are located near Ross Island south of Cape Evans and west of the Hut Point Peninsula in Erebus Bay of McMurdo Sound . Inaccessible Island, the most northwestern island, is closest to Ross Island and is located approximately 1.6 kilometers southwest of Cape Evans. The largest of the Dellbridge Islands is Tent Island.

The archipelago was discovered during the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) led by Robert Falcon Scott and named after James Henry Dellbridge (1871–1931), who served as a marine engineer on the expedition .

gallery

  • Erebus Bay map

  • Satellite image ( ASTER ) of McMurdo Sound with Dellbridge Islands, to the east lies the Erebus glacier tongue

  • Inaccessible Island

  • Tent Island

Web links

Commons : Dellbridge Islands  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Utrata: Utrata specialist dictionary: Geography. English-German / German-English . “Dellbridge Islands” p. 168. Utrata Fachbuchverlag, Gelsenkirchen 2014, ISBN 978-3-944318-28-8 . books.google.de
  2. ^ A b Delbridge Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Last accessed on January 30, 2018
  3. ↑ Inaccessible Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Last accessed on January 30, 2018
  4. ^ Tent Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Last accessed on January 30, 2018