Elisabethinsel

Antarctic island

65°04′39″S 64°06′54″W / 65.07750°S 64.11500°W / -65.07750; -64.11500Area95.12 ha (235.0 acres)Length1.6 km (0.99 mi)Width880 m (2890 ft)AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

Elisabethinsel (Elisabeth Island) is the mostly ice-covered island 1.6 km long in southwest–northeast direction and 880 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 95.12 ha.[1]

The feature was named by German scientists as the result of an Antarctic trip in the southern summer of 1893/94.[2]

Location

Elisabethinsel is located 3.01 km west of the westernmost extremity of Booth Island and 3 km northwest of Pléneau Island. Separated from the adjacent Stego Island on the northwest by a passage narrowing to 52 m at points. British mapping in 2001.

Maps

  • British Admiralty Nautical Chart 446 Anvers Island to Renaud Island. Scale 1:150000. Admiralty, UK Hydrographic Office, 2001
  • Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

See also

References

  1. ^ Elisabethinsel. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
  2. ^ J. Petersen. Die Reisen des „Jason“ und der „Hertha“ in das Antarktische Meer 1893/94 und die wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse dieser Reisen, mit einer Karte von L. Friederichsen. Mitteilungen der Geographische Gesellschaft in Hamburg, 1895, 245–298


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