Hearst Island
| Hearst Island | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 25 ′ S , 62 ° 10 ′ W | |
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| length | 60 km | |
| width | 11 km | |
| surface | approx. 500 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 365 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Hearst Island ( English Hearst Iceland , in Argentina and Chile Isla Hearst is called) one of the Antarctic Peninsula offshore uninhabited island in the Weddell Sea .
geography
Hearst Island is located 6 km east of Cape Rymill off the Wilkins coast of Palmerland in the Larsen Ice Shelf , from which it is separated by the Stefansson Strait, which is only 5 km wide in places . Its shape is arched, with a length of 60 km it is 11 km wide. The island is covered by an ice cap that reaches a height of 365 m .
history
Hearst Island was sighted from the plane by Hubert Wilkins on December 20, 1928 . He thought it was part of the Antarctic mainland and named it Hearst Land after the financier of his expedition, the American media tycoon William Randolph Hearst . It was not until the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), led by Richard Evelyn Byrd , that the island character was determined in 1940.
Individual evidence
- ↑ K. Kostakis: Islands of the world (PDF; 472 kB), accessed on March 14, 2013
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1502
- ^ A b John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 712