Lindenberginsel

Lindenberginsel
Waters	Weddell Sea
Geographical location	64 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 64 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W
length	800 m
width	800 m
surface	50 ha
Highest elevation	200 m
Residents	uninhabited

The Lindenberginsel (also Lindenbergzuckerhut , English Lindenberg Island , Spanish isla Lindenberg ) is an uninhabited island east of the Antarctic Peninsula in the Weddell Sea . The shape of the almost circular island resembles that of a sugar loaf .

Lindenberg Island is located off the Nordenskjöld coast of the Antarctic Peninsula about 35 miles east of Cape Fairweather and 17.5 miles north of Robertson Island . It marked the edge of the Larsen A Ice Shelf until its dissolution in January 1995 . The Lindenberginsel is of volcanic origin and possibly still volcanically active.

The Norwegian whaler Carl Anton Larsen discovered the island in December 1893 and named it Lindenbergs Zuckerhut after Carl Lindenberg (1847–1921), a co-owner of the Hamburg company Woltereck & Robertson , which financed Larsen's trip. He got off his ship and explored the ice shelf on skis . It was the first use of skis in Antarctica history. The Swedish Antarctic Expedition , led by Otto Nordenskjöld and with Larsen as captain of the Antarctic expedition ship , carried out geological surveys of the Lindenberg Island and the neighboring Seal Islands in October 1902 .

Individual evidence

↑ Standing Committee for Geographical Names (StAGN): Directory of German-language geographical names of the Antarctic ( Memento of January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (including coordinates), accessed on May 23, 2013
^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 935. (English)
^ O. Gonzales-Ferran: The Seal Nunataks: An Active Volcanic Group on the Larsen Ice Shelf, West Antarctica . In: RL Oliver, PR James, JB Jago (Ed.): Antarctic Earth Science , Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 978-0-521-25836-4 , pp. 334-337 ( limited preview in Google Book Search , English )
^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 1 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 373 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Otto Nordenskjöld: Scientific results of the Swedish south polar expedition 1901-1903 . Vol. 1, Delivery 1: The Swedish South Polar Expedition and its geographic activity , Lithographic Institute of the General Staff, Stockholm 1911, p. 110 ff .

[1] Standing Committee for Geographical Names (StAGN): Directory of German-language geographical names of the Antarctic ( Memento of January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (including coordinates), accessed on May 23, 2013

[2] John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 935. (English)

[Gonzales-Ferran-3] O. Gonzales-Ferran: The Seal Nunataks: An Active Volcanic Group on the Larsen Ice Shelf, West Antarctica . In: RL Oliver, PR James, JB Jago (Ed.): Antarctic Earth Science , Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 978-0-521-25836-4 , pp. 334-337 ( limited preview in Google Book Search , English )

[4] William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 1 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 373 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[5] Otto Nordenskjöld: Scientific results of the Swedish south polar expedition 1901-1903 . Vol. 1, Delivery 1: The Swedish South Polar Expedition and its geographic activity , Lithographic Institute of the General Staff, Stockholm 1911, p. 110 ff .