Lindenberg Island

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The Lindenberg Island (also Lindenberg Sugarloaf, English Lindenberg Iceland, Spanish isla Lindenberg ) is an uninhabited island east of the Antarctic Peninsula in the Weddell Sea. The shape of the nearly circular island resembles that of a sugar loaf.

The Lindenberg island lies off the Nordenskjold Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula approximately 56 km east of Cape Fairweather and 17.5 kilometers north of Robertson Island. It marked until its dissolution in January 1995 the edge of the Larsen -A Ice Shelf. The Lindenberg island is of volcanic origin, and possibly volcanically active.

The Norwegian whaler Carl Anton Larsen discovered the island in December 1893 and named it Lindesbergs Sugarloaf after Carl Lindenberg ( 1847-1921 ), a co-owner of the Hamburg-based company Woltereck & Robertson, which funded Larsen's journey. He left his ship and explored the ice shelf on skis. It was the first use of skis in the history of Antarctica. The Swedish Antarctic Expedition led by Otto Nordenskjold and with Larsen as captain of the expedition ship Antarctic adopted in October 1902 before geological investigations of the Lindenberg Island and the adjacent Robben Islands.