Haenke Island
| Haenke Island | |
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| Waters | Gulf of Alaska |
| Geographical location | 59 ° 58 ′ 11 ″ N , 139 ° 32 ′ 15 ″ W |
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| length | 1.7 km |
| width | 930 m |
| surface | 1.2 km² |
| Residents | uninhabited |
Haenke Island is an island in Disenchantment Bay , a bay in southeast Alaska at the transition to the Panhandle . It is located near the face of the Hubbard Glacier , the longest water-terminated glacier in Alaska , and the mouth of Russell Fjord . The nearest town is Yakutat 48 km southwest. Haenke Island administratively belongs to the urban area ( borough ).
The island was named in 1792 by Alessandro Malaspina after Thaddäus Haenke , a German-Bohemian natural scientist who was a participant in the first major Spanish research expedition to the Pacific from 1789 to 1794, led by Malaspina . Malaspina had sailed as far as this island before he realized that this route was not the hoped-for connection to the Atlantic .
Analyzes of the expeditions of Malaspina (1792) and George Vancouver (1794) as well as Russian maps from the early 19th century suggest that the Hubbard Glacier reached Haenke Island and beyond around 1800.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Disenchantment Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- ↑ The Slow Advance of a Calving Glacier: Hubbard Glacier, Alaska ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (USGS, Glacier & Snow Program of Alaska & Washington Science Centers, 2002)
