Hansen Island
| Hansen Island | ||
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| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 67 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | 10 km | |
| width | 5 km | |
The Hansen Island , a 10 km long and 5 km wide island off the Loubet coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately north of the strait The Gullet at the head of the Hanusse Bay .
The island was first mapped in 1936 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . This gave the island the provisional name of North Island . In 1948 the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a new survey. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1955 after Leganger H. Hansen (1883-1948), Norwegian administrator of the Leith Harbor whaling station on South Georgia from 1916 to 1937, who provided the British Graham Land Expedition with extensive assistance.
Web links
- Hansen Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hansen Island on geographic.org (English)