Eklund Islands
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| Waters | George VI Sound , Bellingshausen Lake | |
| Geographical location | 73 ° 12 ′ S , 71 ° 50 ′ W | |
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The Eklund Islands are a group of islands at the southwest end of George VI Sound off the English coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula .
The largest of the islands with a length of 8 km and a height of 410 m was discovered in December 1940 by the two American polar explorers Finn Ronne and Carl R. Eklund during their 1750 km long sleigh excursion from Stonington Island to the area of this archipelago and back in the wake of the United States Antarctic service expedition (1939-1941). This island, named by Ronne after Eklund, was the only one that visibly protruded from the ice masses of the sound. The British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs discovered together with the South African geologist Raymond John Adie (1926-2006) during their exploration for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1949 as a result of a retreat of the ice that the island mapped by Ronne and Fuchs was one a large group of mostly icy islands. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names therefore transferred the designation made by Ronne to the entire archipelago in 1953 .
Web links
- Eklund Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eklund Islands on geographic.org (English)