Rothschild Island
| Rothschild Island | ||
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| Waters | Bellingshausen Lake ( Southern Ocean ) | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 36 ′ S , 72 ° 33 ′ W | |
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| length | 39 km | |
| Highest elevation | Enigma Peak 1000 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Rothschild Island ( English Rothschild Island ) is a largely ice- covered island in the Antarctic . It is located about 80 km east of Charcot Island and 8 km west of the northern part of Alexander Island . The elongated island is about 39 km long and is crossed from west-northwest to east-southeast by the Desko Mountains , which reach a height of 1000 meters in Enigma Peak.
The island lies in the Bellingshausen Sea , which is largely covered by ice all year round; the Wilkins Ice Shelf joins south of the island. However, the ice cover in this area of the Bellingshausen Sea has decreased significantly in recent decades.
The mountains of the island were sighted from afar by the expedition Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in January 1821 . In 1909 Jean-Baptiste Charcot sighted the island again on his second Antarctic expedition . He named it after the banker Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868–1949), a member of the Rothschild family. The island was first visited in 1976 when a team from the British Antarctic Survey was flown in to set up a topographic station. BW Care spent five weeks here doing geological surveys in the southern summer of 1976/77.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b SCAR Gazetteer: Ref. No 12398 , accessed May 24, 2013
- ↑ SCAR Gazetteer: Ref. No 3568 , accessed May 26, 2013
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 422 (English)
- ^ Lighthouse Foundation - Foundation for the seas and oceans: The Bellingshausensee , accessed on May 24, 2013
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1330 (English)
- ^ BW Care: The Geology of Rothschild Island, North-West Alexander Island ( Memento from July 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 9.6 MB). In: British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 50, 1980, pp. 87-112 (English).