Krogmann Island
| Krogmann Island (Hovgaard Island) |
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 7 '47 " S , 64 ° 5' 38" W | |
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| length | 5.4 km | |
| width | 2 km | |
| surface | 6 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Krogmann Island ( French Île Hovgaard , English Hovgaard Island ) is an island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 2.5 km southwest of Booth Island .
Participants in the Antarctic voyage with the auxiliary sailor Groenland under Eduard Dallmann discovered it between 1873 and 1874 . Dallmann named it after Hermann August Krogmann (1826-1894), a member of the Geographical Society in Hamburg , who helped finance the expedition. The Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, named it after the Danish polar explorer Andreas Peter Hovgaard (1853–1910), who was involved in the preparations for this research trip. The expedition doctor Frederick Cook converted De Gerlache's French name into the English form on a map in 1900. In 1904 the island was re-mapped during the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , when this was done with the Pourquoi-Pas? wintered in a bay on Booth Island.
Web links
- Hoovgard Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hoovgard Island on geographic.org (English)
- Krogmanninsel in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Individual evidence
- ^ Directory of German geographic names of the Antarctic of the StAGN . Retrieved January 23, 2018.
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 759-760.