Larsen Island
| Larsen Island | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Seal Islands | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 58 ′ 18 ″ S , 60 ° 5 ′ 11 ″ W | |
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| surface | 67 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 140 m | |
The Lars Island (also Larsen Nunatak ) is a 140 m high island off the east coast Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 3 km north of Murdoch Nunatak in the Seal Islands group .
It is named at the suggestion of the German cartographer Ludwig Friederichsen after the Norwegian whaler and Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen (1860-1926), who discovered the Seal Islands in 1893. While Larsen classified the elevations, which were then surrounded by ice shelves, as islands, participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902 under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld thought they were Nunatakkers . Since then, Larsen Island has also been called Larsen Nunatak, although the surrounding Larsen Ice Shelf has disintegrated since 1995.
In 1961 Argentina established the polar station Base Antártica Matienzo, which is now only seasonally operated, on Larsen Island .
Web links
- Larsen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Larseninsel on GeoNames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Standing Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN): Directory of German-language geographical names of the Antarctic ( Memento of October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on March 28, 2016
- ↑ Satellite observes rapidly melting ice shelf in Antarctica , report from April 10, 2012 on the European Space Agency's website , accessed on March 28, 2016
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 1551 f. (English)