Nusser Island

Nusser Island
Waters	Grandidier Canal
Archipelago	Biscoe Islands
Geographical location	65 ° 43 ′  S , 65 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 65 ° 43 ′  S , 65 ° 43 ′  W

Nusser Island is an island off the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it is 2.5 km north of Laktionov Island off the east side of Renaud Island .

The island was first shown on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the Austrian meteorologist Franz Nusser (1902–1987), whose main focus was sea ​​ice research .

Web links

• Nusser Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Nusser Island on geographic.org (English)