Eta island
| Eta island | ||
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| Waters | Dallmann Bay | |
| Archipelago | Eastern Melchior Islands , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 18 '27 " S , 62 ° 54' 35" W | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
The Etainsel ( English Eta Island ) is an island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the largest island in the northeastern part of the Melchior Islands and is located immediately north of the Omega Island .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot thought the Eta and Omega islands were a common object and named them as Île Melchior . The Etainsel was charted by the British Discovery Investigations in 1927 . Your name, borrowed from the Greek letter Eta , appears for the first time in 1946 on maps that were created during the Argentine expeditions of 1942 and 1943. In Argentina , the island is also known as Isla Piedrabuena . It is named after the navigator Luis Piedrabuena (1833–1883), a key figure in the preservation of Argentina's sovereignty in the 19th century.
Web links
- Eta Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eta Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 510 and 534 (English).