Enterprise Island
| Enterprise Island | ||
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| Waters | Wilhelmina Bay | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 32 ′ 19 ″ S , 61 ° 59 ′ 59 ″ W | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
Enterprise Island (from English enterprise , enterprise, project ” ) is a 2.5 km long island off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . In Wilhelmina Bay , it is located in front of the northern end of Nansen Island .
The Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery held this and the neighboring island during his Belgica expedition (1897-1899) for a single island and gave it the name Île Nansen . At the beginning of the 20th century, whalers made a distinction between a northern and a southern Nansen Island. As such, they appear on maps of the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition (1920-1922) under the direction of John Lachlan Cope (1893-1947). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1960 to give the name "Nansen Island" to the larger of the two islands and to rename the island described here. With the renaming, the committee recalled the whaling operations off the Antarctic Peninsula, which used Foyn Harbor on the south side of the island for processing the whales that were shot in the summer months between 1960 and 1930 .
Web links
- Enterprise Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Enterprise Island on geographic.org (English)