Eagle Island (Antarctica)
| Eagle Island | ||
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| Waters | Prince Gustav Canal | |
| Archipelago | Islas Águila | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 39 '36 " S , 57 ° 29' 22" W | |
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| length | 8 kilometers | |
| width | 6 km | |
Eagle Iceland (from the English loosely translated Eagle Island ) is an 8 km long, 6 km wide and up to 560 m high island in front of the entrance to Duse Bay on the south side of Trinity Peninsula at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the largest of the six islands in the Islas Águila archipelago , which lies between the Trinity Peninsula and Vega Island .
The island was probably discovered by a team led by Johan Gunnar Andersson on the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) mapped it in 1945 and named it after the Eagle , a sealer built in Norway in 1902 under the name Sophie , which the FIDS used for research trips.
Web links
- Eagle Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eagle Island on geographic.org (English)