Ohlin Island
| Ohlin Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Strait ( Southern Ocean ) | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 31 ′ S , 60 ° 5 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 170 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Ohlin Island is an island up to 170 m high in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 9 km west of the northern foothills of Tower Island and north of Charcot Bay on Bransfield Strait .
The first sighting probably goes back to the Irish-British navigator Edward Bransfield on January 17, 1820, who later named the island in connection with Tower Island as Tower's Islands . Another, albeit only rough, mapping was undertaken by the British navigator Henry Foster between January and March 1829 as part of his Antarctic voyage with the HMS Chanticleer, which lasted from 1828 to 1831 . Foster named the island after the British astronomer Francis Baily (1774-1844). As a result, it was listed on nautical charts under the names Baily Island , Bailys Island and Baily's Island . The first precise mapping took place during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . Nordenskjöld named it after Axel Ohlin (1867-1903), who took part in the expedition as a zoologist . After measurements by scientists from the British Discovery Investigations between 1930 and 1931, this name prevailed. The first aerial photographs of the island were taken between 1956 and 1957 as part of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition .
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1137 (English)
Web links
- Ohlin Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)