Landsat Island
| Landsat Island | ||
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| Waters | Atlantic Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 10 ′ 37 ″ N , 64 ° 2 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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| surface | 0.112 5 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Landsat Island ( German "Landsat Island" ) is a small uninhabited island that is 20 km away from the northeast coast of Labrador ( Canada ). It was only discovered in 1976 during the analysis of image material from the Landsat -1 satellite and only covers an area of 25 m × 45 m, i.e. 1125 m².
discovery
In 1976, a Canadian expedition was started based on the satellite data, which was able to prove the existence of several previously unmapped geographical features, including Landsat Island. The island was then named after its "discoverer", the Landsat satellite. Frank Hall of the Hydrographic Institute Canada entered the island by being lowered from a helicopter. It turned out that the island was completely covered with ice. Hall got into the immediate vicinity of a polar bear who was currently on the island, which is why the proposal arose to name the island Polar Island (from English polar bear = polar bear).
meaning
Landsat Island is the easternmost point of Canada's land mass on the Labrador Coast. With their discovery, Canada's territorial waters grew by 68 km².
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ibru/publications/full/bsb8-2_gray.pdf
- ↑ The Landsat Program ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . NASA website. Retrieved November 6, 2009.
