Zukriegel Island
| Rabot Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 53 '34 " S , 65 ° 47' 8" W | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
Zukriegel Island is a 1.5 km long island in the Biscoe Islands archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between Rabot Island and the Hennessy Islands .
It was first precisely recorded on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the Czechoslovak geographer Josef Zukriegel (1889–1945), who had studied sea ice .
Web links
- Zukriegel Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zukriegel Island on geographic.org (English)