Jonass Island
| Jonass Island | ||
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| Waters | Antarctic Sound | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 32 ′ 33 " S , 56 ° 41 ′ 0" W | |
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| length | 3 km | |
| width | 3 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Jonassen Island is an island off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in the southern entrance to the Antarctic Sound . It is separated from Andersson Island , 1 km to the south, by the Yalour Sound , and by the Fridtjof Sound from the Tabarin Peninsula in the west .
After the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903) under Otto Nordenskjöld , it was named Île Irízar after Julián Irízar (1869-1935), captain of the Argentine corvette Uruguay , which was involved in rescuing the stranded expedition members. In 1904 the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , unaware of the naming of this island by Nordenskjöld, named another island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula as Irízar Island . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names took over the decision of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1952 to keep Charcot's designation due to the distribution on maps and to rename the island described here. It is named after Ole Jonassen (1874 – unknown), who accompanied Nordenskjöld on the Swedish Antarctic Expedition between 1902 and 1903 on its two most important sledge excursions.
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 823 (English)
Web links
- Jonassen Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jonassen Island on geographic.org (English)