Hanka Island
| Hanka Island | ||
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| Waters | Leith Cove in Paradise Harbor | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 52 ′ S , 62 ° 48 ′ W | |
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Hanka Island is an island off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . In Paradise Harbor , it is near the head of Leith Cove .
The Scottish geologist David Ferguson (1857-1936) named it after the whaler Hanka , with whom he had sailed the waters around this island between 1913 and 1914.
Web links
- Hanka Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hanka Island on geographic.org (English)