Splitwind Island
| Splitwind Island | ||
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| Waters | Lemaire Channel | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 2 ′ 9 ″ S , 63 ° 55 ′ 31 ″ W | |
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| length | 400 m | |
Split Wind Iceland (from the English loosely translated Split Wind Island ) is a 400 m long island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located off the northern end of Booth Island at the northern entrance to the Lemaire Channel .
Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them. Charcot named it as Îlot de Rothschild after the French banker Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868-1949). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave it its current name in 1959 in order to avoid confusion with Rothschild Island . This takes into account the meteorological peculiarity that the wind south of the island often differs from that north of the island.
Web links
- Split Wind Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Splitwind Island on geographic.org (English)