Drygalski Island
| Drygalski Island | ||
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| Waters | Davissee | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 45 ′ S , 92 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| length | 20.6 km | |
| width | 13.4 km | |
| surface | 220 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 327 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Drygalski Island is an island in the Southern Ocean near the Shackleton Ice Shelf in East Antarctica . The island is 20.6 km long and 13.4 km wide. It covers 220 km². The height of the ice dome is 327 m above sea level. The island's ice cap sits on a bank of Lake Davis covered with moraine debris , so that the island consists entirely of ice . The depth of the sea under the island varies between 68 m and 200 m.
history
The Drygalski Island was in 1902 by the first German Antarctic Expedition of Erich von Drygalski the balloon discovered from.
In November 1912, members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) sighted the island again. The leader of the expedition , Douglas Mawson , had them examined more closely on the return trip in January 1914. He named the island after Erich von Drygalski.
In the Antarctic summer of 1957/1958, Soviet scientists explored the island and set up an automatic weather station. The first to overwinter in 1960 were the Potsdam meteorologist Günter Skeib , the Soviet aerologist Alexander A. Smirnow and Sergei Karpuschin.
Web links
- Günter Skeib: Some remarks about the orography and weather conditions of Drygalski Island (PDF; 771 kB). In: Polar Research . Volume 32, No. 1/2, 1962, pp. 132-135.
- SE Jones: The Western Base - Linking up with Kaiser Wilhelm II Land . In: Douglas Mawson: The Home of the Blizzard , William Heinemann, London 1915.
- Drygalski Island from the west (photo)
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Skeib: Hurricanes over Antarctica. Research work in snow and ice , 2nd edition, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1963, p. 117 ff.