Rosenthal Islands
| Rosenthal Islands | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 36 ′ S , 64 ° 17 ′ W | |
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| Main island | Gerlache Island | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Rosenthal Islands (also Rosenthal Islands ) are a small group of islands in the southwest of the Palmer Archipelago west of Anvers Island . Most of the islands are covered in snow and ice. The largest island in the group is Gerlache Island .
The Rosenthal Islands were discovered by Eduard Dallmann , who explored the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula in 1873/74 on behalf of the German Polar Shipping Company . His shipping company named the island after the expedition after Albert Rosenthal (1828–1882), the director of the German Polar Shipping Company . Rosenthal was the initiator and organizer of the expedition.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Standing Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN): Directory of German-language geographical names of the Antarctic , accessed on September 26, 2016
- ↑ Reinhard A. Krause, Ursula Rack (ed.): Journal, kept on board the steamship GROENLAND, Captain Ed. Dallmann, on the journey from Hamburg to d. Whale and Seal fishing on the coasts of South Shetland Islds. Coronation Isld. Trinity Land & Palmerland, run by Rud. Küper, Hamburg , Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven 2006 (PDF file; 4.91 MB), accessed on May 9, 2013
- ^ Johann Georg Mönckeberg : 190th session . In: Communications from the Geographical Society in Hamburg . Volume 11, 1896, ( p. 136 )
- ↑ Dietmar Henze: Encyclopedia of the explorers and explorers of the earth . Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1983, p. 7 ( online preview on google )