Trinity Island
| Trinity Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 49 ′ S , 60 ° 44 ′ W | |
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| length | 24 km | |
| width | 10 km | |
| surface | 208 km² | |
| Highest elevation |
Tower Hill 1125 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Trinity Island ( English Trinity Island , French Île de la Trinité , Spanish Isla Trinidad ) is a 24 km long and 10 km wide island with an area of 208 km². It is located in the north of the Palmer Archipelago off the Davis Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula .
The island was named Trinity Island by Otto Nordenskjöld , the head of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903), in memory of Edward Bransfield's "Trinity Land" . As early as 1820, the British explorer Bransfield explored the waters north of the Antarctic Peninsula and mapped Trinity Island.
In the north the island rises like a pyramid. Its highest peak, Tower Hill , reaches 1125 m there . The southwest of the island is a flat plateau that supports an ice cap .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1585 (English).
- ↑ http://islands.unep.ch/INY.htm#28
- ↑ Otto Nordenskjöld, 1911: Scientific results of the Swedish South Polar Expedition 1901–1903 . Vol. 1, Delivery 1: The Swedish South Polar Expedition and its geographic activity , Lithographic Institute of the General Staff
- ^ Trinity Island in the Australian Antarctic Data Center
- ^ Oswald Dreyer-Eimbcke, 1996: In the footsteps of explorers at the southernmost end of the world: Milestones in the history of discovery and cartography from the 16th to the 20th century. ( online preview , accessed May 14, 2013)
- ↑ Hans Peter Kosack, 1955: The Antarctic ( online preview , accessed on May 14, 2013)