Gand Island
| Gand Island | ||
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| Waters | Schollaert Canal | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 24 ′ 17 ″ S , 62 ° 51 ′ 14 ″ W | |
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| length | 4.82 km | |
| width | 1.93 km | |
| surface | 9.3 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Gand Island ( English ; French Île Gand 'Gent Island' ) is a flat, icy and 9.30 km² large island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located at the northern end of the Schollaert Canal between the Anvers and Brabant Islands and south-southeast of the group of Melchior Islands .
Participants of the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered them on January 30, 1898. De Gerlache named them after the Belgian city of Ghent , where a bond sale to finance the research trip had taken place. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the French name in 1952 in a partial translation into English. This was taken over by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1953 . The first aerial photographs of the island were taken by the United States Navy between 1968 and 1969 .
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 604 (English)
Web links
- Gand Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gand Island on geographic.org (English)