Michelsen Island
| Michelsen Island | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 44 ′ S , 45 ° 2 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Michelsen Island ( Norwegian Michelsenøya ) is a small island in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands . It is connected to the southern end of Powell Island by an isthmus ( tombolo ) made of boulders and washed over by the sea . It belongs to the Antarctic Specially Protected Area, ASPA No. 111 .
It was discovered and sparsely mapped in 1821 by the British whaling captain George Powell (1794-1824) and his American counterpart Nathaniel Palmer . The name of the island is recorded for the first time on a map that the Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle (1884–1933) had drawn up on the basis of his measurements of the South Orkney Islands carried out between 1912 and 1913. The exact namesake is not known.
Web links
- Michelsen Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Michelsen Island on geographic.org (English)