Irízar Island
| Irízar Island | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| Archipelago | Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 13 ′ 21 ″ S , 64 ° 12 ′ 5 ″ W | |
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| length | 1 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Irízar Island ( French Île Irízar , English Irízar Island ) is an island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located around 1 km northeast of the Uruguay Island in the northeast section of the Argentine Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago .
It was discovered by participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named the island after Julián Irízar (1869-1935), captain of the Argentine corvette Uruguay , which was used to rescue the stranded participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903). The island was surveyed in 1935 by the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 790 (English)
Web links
- Irízar Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Irízar Island on geographic.org (English)