Torgersen Island
| Torgersen Island | ||
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| Waters | Arthur Harbor | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 46 ′ S , 64 ° 4 ′ W | |
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Torgersen Island is a rocky island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is located east of Litchfield Island in the entrance to Arthur Harbor off the southwest coast of Anvers Island .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) carried out surveys in 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on July 7, 1959 after Torstein Torgersen (* 1918), first mate on board the Norwegian sealer MV Norsel , which the FIDS had chartered to build the surveying station on Arthur Harbor between 1954 and 1955.
Web links
- Torgersen Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Torgersen Island on geographic.org (English)