Delta island
| Delta island | ||
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| Waters | Dallmann Bay | |
| Archipelago | Melchior Islands , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 18 ′ 41 ″ S , 62 ° 58 ′ 33 ″ W | |
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| length | 800 m | |
The Delta Island ( English Delta Island ) is an 800 m long island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in the group of Melchior Islands, southeast of the Lambda Island and east of the Alpha Island .
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped them in 1927 and named them after the Greek letter Delta in connection with the naming of the other islands in the group . The Delta Island was measured as part of Argentine expeditions in 1942, 1943 and 1948. In Argentina it is known as Isla Hermelo , named after Ricardo J. Hermelo, the deputy commander of the corvette Uruguay who rescued the Nordenskjöld expedition in 1903.
Web links
- Delta Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Delta Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 417 (English).