Harmsworth Island

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Jackson's Map of Franz Josef Lands with Alfred Harmsworth Island and Albert Edward Island (1898)

Harmsworth Island (also: Harmsworth Land , Alfred Harmsworth Island ) is the name of a phantom island in the Franz Joseph Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean . It was sighted northwest of Prince George Land during the Jackson Harmsworth Expedition (1894-1897) and named after the financier of the expedition, the British publisher Alfred Harmsworth .

In 1931, both the German airship Graf Zeppelin and the Soviet icebreaker Malygin , who met near Franz-Joseph-Land, explored the archipelago. The German aviators rejected the existence of Harmsworth Island and Albert Eduard Island , since in their traditional positions they could see no land up to the horizon. The Soviet researchers, according to different sources, either came to the same conclusion or considered Harmsworth to be part of Arthur Island . After 1931 the island disappeared from the maps.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Huntford : Nansen, The Explorer as Hero . London 2001, ISBN 0-349-11492-7 , p. 421.
  2. ^ O. Bashin: The Arctic voyage of the airship "Graf Zeppelin" . In: The natural sciences . 20, No. 1, January 1932, pp. 6-13.
  3. ^ Lincoln Ellsworth, Edward H. Smith: Report of the Preliminary Results of the Aeroarctic Expedition with "Graf Zeppelin." 1931 . In: Geographical Review 22, No. 1, January 1932, pp. 61–82, p. 66. PDF document of the journal edition
  4. ^ J. Gordon Hayes: The Conquest of the North Pole . London 1934, p. 103. Online source
  5. ^ John M. Snyder, Bernard Stonehouse: Prospects for Polar Tourism . Wallingford 2007, ISBN 1-84593-247-1 , p.25 . Online source

Coordinates: 81 °  N , 51 °  E