Wilhelm Archipelago
| Wilhelm Archipelago | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 8 ′ S , 64 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| Main island | Booth Island and Krogmann Island | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Wilhelm Archipelago (also Kaiser Wilhelm Islands , English Wilhelm Archipelago ) is an archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula ( Grahamland ) in the Antarctic .
The Wilhelm Archipelago consists of a large number of islands. The largest of these are Booth Island and Krogmann Island . Petermann Island , which is also part of the Wilhelm Archipelago, is the southernmost point of many Antarctic cruises. The archipelago extends off the west coast of Grahamland from the Bismarck Strait in the northeast to Lumus Rock in the southwest. The archipelago was supported by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann discovered and 1873/74 after the German Emperor I. Wilhelm named.
geography
The archipelago is separated in the north by the Bismarck Strait from Anvers Island , which is already part of the Palmer Archipelago . The Southwind Passage between the Betbeder Islands , the southernmost archipelago in the Wilhelm Archipelago and the Biscoe Islands, limits the archipelago to the south. Lumus Rock is the southernmost point of the Wilhelm Archipelago.
The Wauwermans Islands form the northernmost group of islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago. The Dannebrog Islands , which are located between the Wauwermans Islands and the Vedel Islands , were first named Kaiser Wilhelm Islands by Eduard Dallmann in 1873 . Named after the Dannebrog by the Belgica expedition led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery in recognition of the support of the expedition by Denmark , the entire archipelago was later given the original name originally given by Dallmann. The Dannebrog Islands are followed to the south by the Vedel Islands to the west of the Krogmann Island , and the group of Stray Islands to the west of the Petermann Island . The Myriad Islands are located about 10 km west of the Vedel Islands . They were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 because of the large number of small and tiny islands that this group comprises.
The French Passage separates these archipelagos from another series of archipelagos from west to east. The Roca Islands follow the Cruls Islands . Between these and the Argentine islands are the Anagram Islands , whose westernmost island Maranga Island bears a name that originated from an anagram on the word "anagram". The Yalour Islands 1.5 km west of Cape Tuxen and the Berthelot Islands 2 km west of Deliverance Point as well as the Darboux Island 5 km west of Cape Pérez are further archipelagos and islands off the west coast of Grahamland, which are part of the Wilhelm- Archipelago belong.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Australian Antarctic Data Center: Wilhelm Archipelago ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Reinhard A. Krause, Ursula Rack (ed.): Journal, kept on board the steamship GROENLAND, Captain Ed. Dallmann, on the journey from Hamburg to d. Whale and Seal fishing on the coasts of South Shetland Islds. Coronation Isld. Trinity Land & Palmerland, run by Rud. Küper, Hamburg . Reports on Polar and Marine Research, 530, LXXV, 2006. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
