Gossler Island
| Gossler Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Gossler Islands ( Palmer Archipelago ) | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 42 ′ 13 " S , 64 ° 20 ′ 47" W | |
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| length | 1 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Gossler Islands (also Gosslerinsel ) is an island in the southwest of Palmer Archipelago west of Anvers Island , about 2 kilometers from the Cape Monaco . With a few immediately neighboring islets, it forms the small group of the Gossler Islands ( English Gossler Islands ). Most of the islands are covered in snow and ice.
The Gossler Island was discovered by Eduard Dallmann , who explored the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula in 1873/74 on behalf of the German Polar Shipping Company . After the expedition, his shipping company named the island after Ernst Gossler (1838-1893) and his family , who was involved in the German Polar Shipping Company together with several other Hamburg merchants and shipowners .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Standing Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN): Directory of German-language geographical names of the Antarctic ( Memento of January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 10, 2013
- ↑ Reinhard A. Krause, Ursula Rack (ed.): Journal, kept on board the steamship GROENLAND, Captain Ed. Dallmann, on the journey from Hamburg to d. Whale and Seal fishing on the coasts of South Shetland Islds. Coronation Isld. Trinity Land & Palmerland, run by Rud. Küper, Hamburg , Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven 2006 (PDF file; 4.91 MB), accessed on May 9, 2013
- ↑ Communications of the Geographical Society in Hamburg, Volumes 11-12, 1896 ( online preview on google ), accessed on May 10, 2013
- ↑ Dietmar Henze, 1983: Enzyklopädie der Entdecker und Erforscher der Erde ( online preview on google ), accessed on May 10, 2013