Elizabeth Island (Antarctica)
| Elizabeth Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Dannebrog Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 5 ′ S , 64 ° 7 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Elizabeth Island is an island in the Wilhelm Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It belongs to the Dannebrog Islands group .
German scientists named it as the result of a trip to the Antarctic in the southern summer of 1893/94.
Web links
- Elisabethinsel in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Petersen, J. (1895): The voyages of "Jason" and "Hertha" in the Antarctic Sea 1893/94 and the scientific results of these voyages, with a map by L. Friederichsen.– Mitt. D. Geogr. Ges. Hamburg, 245-298. Friederichsen, L .: Accompanying words to the map of the Dirck Gherritz Archipelago.– 299–305. Plate 7: Original map of the Dirck Gherritz archipelago (approx. 1: 3.217.000). u. signed v. L. Friederichsen 1895, equatorial scale 1: 7,500,000. Quoted from: Standing Committee for Geographical Names : Directory of German-language geographical names of the Antarctic. Version 2.14, June 13, 2014 (Introduction) (List of sources ) (List and list of sources accessed on July 11, 2019)