La Ronciere Island

La Ronciere Island
The east of Franz Josef Land with La Ronciere Island
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	Franz Josef Land
Geographical location	81 ° 0 ′  N , 60 ° 52 ′  E Coordinates: 81 ° 0 ′  N , 60 ° 52 ′  E
length	29 km
width	19 km
surface	478 km²
Highest elevation	431  m
Residents	uninhabited

The La Ronciere Island ( Russian Остров Ла-Ронсьер , Ostrow La-Ronsjer ) is an uninhabited island of the arctic Franz Josef Land belonging to Russia .

It lies in the east of the archipelago and is separated from the Wilczek Land to the south by the 10 km wide Vanderbilt Strait. Arthur Island is 478 km² and is covered by an ice cap up to 431 m high, except for the coastal region around Cape Hitt in the northeast and the western Cape Mys Rogaty .

The La Ronciere Island was discovered by the Austro-Hungarian North Polar Expedition (1872–1874) and considered a peninsula of Wilczek Land. Julius Payer named it after Camille de La Roncière-Le Noury (1816–1881), the president of the French Société de Géographie . Their island character only recognized Evelyn Briggs Baldwin , who drove a dog sled through Vanderbilt Street during the Walter Wellman Expedition (1898–1899) . Wellman's naming of the island after William Collins Whitney , a financier of his expedition, did not last.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LaRonciere Insel on the website www.franz-josef-land.info , accessed on July 4, 2017.
2. ↑ Peter J. Capelotti: EB Baldwin and the American-Norwegian discovery and exploration of Graham Bell Island, 1899 . In: Polar Research . Volume 25, No. 2, 2006, pp. 155-171. doi : 10.3402 / polar.v25i2.6245
3. ^ Peter J. Capelotti: The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905 . University of Oklahoma Press, Norman (Oklahoma) 2016, ISBN 978-0-8061-5222-6 , pp. 185 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

• Topographic map of the island at a scale of 1: 200,000