Vedel Islands
| Vedel Islands | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 8 ′ S , 64 ° 14 ′ W | |
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The Vedel Islands are a group of small islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 3 km west of the Krogmann Island .
The German polar explorer Eduard Dallmann discovered the largest island in the group in 1874 and named it Friedburg Island . Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, renamed it as Île Vedel . During the two French expeditions to the Antarctic (1903–1905 and 1908–1910) of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , the rest of the islands were also mapped. Charcot named the group as Îles Le Myre de Vilers after the French colonial official Charles Le Myre de Vilers (1833-1918). However, this designation did not catch on even in France. The name giver of today's name, based on de Gerlaches naming the largest island, is the French writer Émile Henri Auguste Vedel (1858-1937).
Web links
- Vedel Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vedel Islands on geographic.org (English)